2,250kg of hashish seized as police destroy lab in Behsud, Wardak
Maidan Wardak police said they found and destroyed a drug laboratory in the Qar Katak area of Behsud district and seized 2,250 kilograms of hashish there. The same police statement added 1,000 kilograms of other illicit drugs, and said those running the trade had fled and officers were trying to detain them.
Police in central Maidan Wardak province said they found and destroyed a drug
laboratory in Behsud district.[1]The laboratory was demolished in the Qar
Katak area of the district, according to a statement from the provincial police
headquarters.[1]
The raiding party seized2,250 kilograms of hashish.[1]The same statement
said officers seized 1,000 kilograms of other illicit drugs, a combined figure
not counted as cannabis.[1]Police said those behind the drug trade had fled
the area and security personnel were trying to detain them.[1]No arrest was
reported in the raid.[1]
Photos and video
Picture published with the Pajhwok report on the destroyed drug laboratory in Behsud, Maidan Wardak, captioned only by the article headline; no credit is given.Photo details
The article dates the raid only as happening "the other day" before the 3 November 2022 publication, so the incident date is approximate; 1 November is used.
No figure for the size of the laboratory, the number of rooms or items destroyed with it was published.
The 1,000 kilograms of "other illicit drugs" are not identified by substance; only the hashish weight is recorded as cannabis.
The article does not say whether the laboratory processed hashish alone or other drugs as well.
Police said the people running the operation had fled; no arrests, charges or court outcome are reported.
Only one account of the raid could be opened; the Dari and Pashto versions of the same Pajhwok story are behind the site's subscriber wall.
The page photo is captioned only by the headline and has no credit, so it is linked rather than treated as a confirmed picture of the destroyed laboratory.
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.
Police in Pasaband district, Ghor detained 27 people and destroyed eight drug factories during a 20-day operation, seizing 8.5 kg of processed hashish among other drugs and vehicles. The detainees were referred to court and all seized narcotics were destroyed by burning.
Khost anti-narcotics officers seized about 3.2 kg of hashish and more than 3,215 narcotic pills in Speri district, arresting one person. The hashish is the cannabis component of the mixed seizure; the pills and a further 1.4 kg were reported without a clear cannabis link.
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.
