Police in capital Kabul and in northern Kunduz province have recovered 37 kilograms of heroin and arrested five persons, a statement from the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday. One person had been arrested and five…
Two drug traffickers were arrested along with 105 kilograms of heroin in Jablus Siraj district of central Parwan province on Thursday, police said. A statement from the Parwan police headquarters said the detainees were transferring the heroin in…
Security forces in the Argo district of northeastern Badakhshan province destroyed a heroin-producing laboratory during an overnight operation, an official said on Saturday. Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, the police spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that counter-narcotics police seized 1,000…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai has held a telephonic conversation with British Prime Minister David Cameron on various issues of mutual interest, including the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA). The Presidential Palace said on Saturday the two leaders discussed bilateral relations, the…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
ZARANJ (PAN): Two suspects were detained with 45 kilograms of heroin near the Iranian border in the southwestern province of Nimroz, an official said on Saturday. The drugs were seized on Friday evening from a car traveling from Zaranj to…
KABUL): Afghan counternarcotic agents smashed a cross-border drug smuggling network, with the seizure of 50 kilograms of heroin concealed in tyres and detained three traffickers in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Tuesday. Syed Sarwar Hussaini, the provincial police…
JALALABAD/ZARANJ (PAN): Security forces confiscated dozens of kilograms of drugs during operations in eastern Nangarhar and southwestern Nimroz provinces, officials said on Thursday. On Wednesday, police recovered more than 30 kilograms of drugs from a truck destined for Iran in…
JALALABAD (PAN): Seventy-five kilograms of drugs were seized by border police during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday. The heroin was recovered from a car while the traffickers escaped, the border police spokesman, Idris Momand,…
BADGHIS: Two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed and three others injured in a roadside bombing in the Qadis district of western Badghis province on Monday. The explosion took place when an ANA vehicle hit a a roadside bomb…
