Kabul court jails 15 for hashish, tablets and alcohol with up to 4 years
Kabul's primary court for narcotics and intoxicants sentenced 15 people arrested for selling and trafficking hashish, narcotic tablets and alcohol to seven months to four years in prison and 10 to 39 lashes each. The Supreme Court approved the rulings, which bundled cannabis with tablet and alcohol charges and published no cannabis quantity.
Kabul’s primary court for the prevention of narcotics and alcoholic beverages
gave disciplinary sentences to 15 offenders, the Supreme Court said.[1]All 15
were arrested on charges of selling and trafficking intoxicating tablets (Zikap
and “K-A”), alcoholic beverages and hashish.[1]The court’s Pashto-language
statement, carried by Pajhwok, names the same tablets and alcohol and calls the
cannabis charas, the local term for hashish.[2]The primary court sentenced
the 15 to prison terms of seven months to four years, plus 10 to 39 lashes each.[1]Kabul Tribune reported the same 15 convictions, the same seven months to
four years and the same 10 to 39 lashes from the Supreme Court statement.[3]
Kabul Tribune adds that the primary court issued the decisions and the Supreme
Court confirmed them before they were enforced.[3]Both accounts put the
hashish in one ruling with synthetic tablets and alcohol, and neither gives a
weight of cannabis.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The sources give no date for the sentencing hearing itself; 4 December 2025 is the date of the Supreme Court statement and is used as the incident date.
No weight of hashish was published, so no cannabis kilograms can be recorded.
The tablets named Zikap and K-A are treated as synthetic and excluded from every figure; the sources do not describe their composition.
No cannabis-only fine or value was reported, and the court case reference is not given.
None of the 15 people is named, and the sources do not separate how many faced hashish charges alone.
Pajhwok and Kabul Tribune both restate one Supreme Court announcement; no independently gathered account was found.
Counter-narcotics police in Afghanistan's Takhar province stopped a car in Taluqan, the provincial capital, and arrested four suspected traffickers. Police said 40 kilograms of hashish and 143 kilograms of opium were hidden in compartments in the vehicle, and the provincial police spokesman put the narcotics seized at more than 180 kilograms.
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.
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.
An Afghan appeal court sentenced 30 drug smugglers to one to 16 years in prison in 25 cases decided by the Counter-Narcotics Justice Center in Kabul. The cases involved 427 kilograms of hashish alongside heroin, morphine and 823 kilograms of tablet-K.
