KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Thousands of kilograms of hashish was seized and set alight during a joint operation in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province, officials said on Monday. The operation was conducted late on Sunday by Afghan and International…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai, calling cultivation, production and smuggling of drugs a big tragedy, said on Monday his government was ready for all kinds of cooperation with regional countries to combat the courage. Karzai met with counternarcotics ministers from Pakistan…
KABUL): Interior ministry officials on Wednesday said a joint offensive by the Afghan and Iranian forces against drug-trafficking across their common border would start on Thursday. The fifth joint operation with the neighbouring country was aimed to combat drug smuggling,…
BAGHLAN: A German soldier with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was injured in a roadside bombing in northern Baghlan province on Wednesday, officials said. The explosion happened in Charshanba Tepa area of Baghlan-i-Markazi district, where an ISAF patrol vehicle…
ZARANJ (PAN): At least 55 kilograms of drugs were seized by the security personnel in southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Wednesday. The crystal type heroin was recovered from a corolla car on Tuesday in the Kang district, Brig.…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Police have detained 11 suspected smugglers with more than 21,000 kilograms of narcotics and explosives in southern Kandahar province, officials said on Wednesday. Governor Toryalai Wesa and police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Razzaq, told reporters a total…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): A delegation of the US State Department on Tuesday paid a visit to southern Kandahar province and discussed with local officials issues concerning illicit drugs and the rule of law. Led by former undersecretary of state for…
KABUL): A number of suspected insurgents were detained and a narcotics cache seized during an operation in southern Kandahar province, the International Security Assistance Force said on Tuesday. An Afghan-coalition patrol arrested the suspects in Registan district on Monday, the…
KABUL): Seventeen individuals were sentenced up to 20 years in jail on charges of trafficking drugs, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) announced on Sunday. Having defence lawyers to plead their cases, the accused were convicted by an appellant court…
KABUL): Thirteen people were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in jail by an appellant court for trafficking drugs, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) announced on Sunday. The jail terms were handed down based on evidence presented during an…
SHARAN (PAN): Up to 250 kilograms of opium and hashish seized from across Paktika province have been destroyed, officials said on Wednesday. Zabihullah Masaud, head of the provincial counter-narcotics department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the drugs had been torched…
SHARAN (PAN): Up to 250 kilograms of opium and hashish seized from across Paktika province have been destroyed, officials said on Wednesday. Zabihullah Masaud, head of the provincial counter-narcotics department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the drugs had been torched…
KABUL): The Deputy Interior Minister of Counter Narcotics said on Monday that over three million Afghans, based mostly in the provinces, are involved in manufacturing or trafficking drugs. The deputy minister, Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, told a press conference that the…
KABUL): The Deputy Interior Minister of Counter Narcotics said on Monday that over three million Afghans, based mostly in the provinces, are involved in manufacturing or trafficking drugs. The deputy minister, Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, told a press conference that the…
KABUL): Fifteen people were sentenced by a primary court to 5-20 years in jail on the charge of trafficking alcohol and other drugs, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) announced on Sunday. The accused were convicted at the end of…
LASHKARGAH (PAN's largest opium-producing region, officials said on Saturday. Police seized 15 kg of heroin and 54 kg of opium on Friday in Lashkargah City, the provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hakim Angar, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Two people…
KABUL's largest opium-producing region, an official said on Sunday. More than 660 kilograms of opium, which the smugglers were carrying in a pickup truck, were seized as a result of the clash in Sangin district, the deputy counternarcotics minister said.…
JALALABAD (PAN): Expired and low-quality medicine and food, weighing nearly 12 tonnes, were set afire in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, officials said. The material included 87 different kinds of expired and poor-quality medicine and food items was…
KABUL, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Up to 298 kg of opium were seized during an operation by counterterrorism police in the Washer district of Helmand province. A statement from the ministry said two individuals were detained on the…
KABUL): Counternarcotics police seized 370 kilograms of drugs in different parts of the country over the past 24 hours, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Up to 291 kgs of opium was confiscated from a house during an operation in…
FARAHCITY (PAN): Two policemen were injured in a roadside bombing in the western province of Farah, where security personnel seized 298 kilograms of drugs, officials said on Tuesday. The blast ripped through a police vehicle in Pusht-i-Rod district on Monday…
KABUL): More than 180 tonnes of different kinds of narcotics and chemicals have been recovered and 65 drug processing factories destroyed in the country during last Afghan year, an official said on Monday. As many as 1,459 suspects were arrested…
