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.
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.
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.
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.