Counter-narcotics personnel arrested three people on charges of drug trafficking and selling narcotics in separate intelligence-based operations in Kabul.[1] The Interior Ministry said in a statement on its X account that the operations took place in the 11th security district of Kabul city and in Bagrami district.[1]

Officers seized more than three kilograms of hashish.[1] The operations also seized 1,382 capsules, a quantity of “tablet K”, a locally named stimulant tablet, and an amount of heroin.[1] The statement said the security forces destroyed a factory used to produce alcoholic drinks and confiscated 24 litres of alcohol.[1]

The detained people were under investigation and would be referred to judicial and legal institutions after preliminary inquiries.[1] The ministry’s Dari-language account of the same statement gives the same three arrests and the same seizure of 1,382 capsules, tablet K, more than three kilograms of hashish and heroin.[2]