🇦🇫 Afghanistan
8 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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The Taliban claim 8,000 anti-drug operations and 10,000 arrests
The Interior Ministry's deputy minister for counter-narcotics said the ministry had carried out more than 8,000 operations against drug suspects in 2026 and arrested more than 10,000 people. He also claimed 4,300 operations to round up addicts and 12,500 operations to destroy poppy fields.
Police seize 245 kg of hashish in Panjshir
Anti-narcotics police stopped a shipment of 245 kilograms of hashish in the Kotol Anjuman area of Paryan district, Panjshir province, and arrested four people. The suspects were referred to judicial authorities after initial questioning. The ministry did not say where the shipment was going.
Police seize 300 kg of hashish in Helmand
Counter-narcotics police seized 300 kilograms of hashish in Helmand province and arrested four people, the Interior Ministry said. In the same round of operations police recovered 2,800 intoxicating tablets in Jalalabad and 1,000 tablet K pills in Herat. The ministry said the suspects would face legal action.
Kandahar destroys almost a tonne of cannabis
Kandahar's anti-narcotics unit destroyed 993 kilograms of cannabis as part of more than 27 tonnes of drugs burned over five months in Arghandab district. The haul also included 2,766 kg of opium, 9.7 kg of methamphetamine and 1 kg of heroin. In Kabul, police arrested 123 people over a week and seized 15 kg of hashish, while 50,000 stimulant tablets were seized in Nangarhar.
The Taliban burn 2.7 tonnes of cannabis in Uruzgan
The Interior Ministry said counter-narcotics officers found a 2,700-kilogram cannabis shipment in Chinaratu district of Uruzgan province and destroyed it by burning. In the same announcement it reported 37 kilograms of opium seized in Farah and four arrests there. The Uruzgan haul was the largest cannabis seizure reported in the period reviewed.
Police seize 222 kg of hashish in Badakhshan
Police in Kishim district, Badakhshan, arrested two people and seized 222 kilograms of hashish from a vehicle disguised as a livestock carrier. The provincial police spokesman said the men were handed to judicial authorities. It was one of the largest single cannabis seizures reported in northern Afghanistan in 2025.
Kabul court jails seventeen for cannabis, tablets and alcohol
Kabul's primary court for narcotics and intoxicants sentenced seventeen people to seven months to three and a half years in prison and 15 to 35 lashes for selling and trafficking narcotic tablets, alcohol and cannabis. The Supreme Court approved the sentences, which were carried out on 23 September 2025.
Taliban court gives hashish traffickers prison and lashes
A Taliban court sentences eleven people for trafficking hashish and narcotic tablets to between seven months and three and a half years in prison, plus ten to thirty-nine lashes.[@1]
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