In a tragic development, more than 300 rehabilitated drug addicts have returned to the habit in central Bamyan province, where many addicts refuse to go to rehab centres, an official says. Officials at the provincial Public Health…
The border police held some suspects with 400 kilogram drugs in the Kahsan district of western Herat province, officials said Tuesday. Gen. Mohammad Adil, border police chief of 4th zone, told Pajhwok Afghan News the drugs were…
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…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Five militants were killed during a clash with border police in northwestern Badghis province, while 350 kilograms of drugs seized in western Heart province, officials said on Tuesday. Gen. Mohammad Juma Adil, the western zone border police…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Hundreds of kilograms of drugs destined for neighbouring Iran have been seized in the Ghoryan district of western Herat province, police said on Saturday. The opium, weighing 330 kilograms, was recovered from a house in a remote…
KABUL, accounting for 74 percent of the illicit opium production last year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Wednesday. In its 2013 World Drug Report launched in Vienna, UNODC said global opium production declined to…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Narcotics weighing nearly 30 tonnes were set afire in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, officials said. Seized this year, the drugs included heroin, morphine, crystal, opium, hashish, chemical material and alcoholic beverages. Deputy Interior Minister Lt. Gen.…
JALALABAD (PAN's lawless tribal region of Khyber, officials said on Tuesday. The opium recovered from a car going from Laghman province to Nangarhar, the commander of border police, Brig. Gen. Aminullah Amarkhel, told Pajhwok Afghan News. As a result of…
KABUL-led troops and an Afghan official said on Sunday. The narcotics were recovered during overnight operations by Afghan and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers in the Spin Boldak and Punjwai districts, a statement from the alliance said. More than10…
HERAT CITY (PAN) Police seized 410 kilograms of opium from a vehicle in the Injil district of western Herat province on Friday, an official said. The opium was recovered from a Mazda pick-up truck in the district centre at 5am,…
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…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Police detained three people in the northern province of Baghlan on charges of trafficking 58 kilograms of drugs, officials said on Saturday. The men were transporting narcotics, including 24 kg of opium and 34 kg of hashish, in…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Police detained three people in the northern province of Baghlan on charges of trafficking 58 kilograms of drugs, officials said on Saturday. The men were transporting narcotics, including 24 kg of opium and 34 kg of hashish, in…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Some policemen are collecting the opium tax from farmers while others are smuggling the drug in Deh Raud district of central Uruzgan province, residents alleged on Monday. Checkpoint commanders charge the tax from opium growers in different areas…
