53 tons of drugs including hashish burned in Kandahar; 227 held
Kandahar police publicly burned more than 53 tons of seized drugs including hashish and arrested 227 people over three months of operations. No separate weight for the hashish was given, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
Afghan authorities burned more than 53 tons of seized illegal drugs in Kandahar
Province on 11 November 2026, according to provincial police spokesman Mullah
Assadullah Jamshid.[1]Police arrested 227 people on charges of involvement in
the drug trade over the same three-month period.[1]
The burned contraband included opium, heroin, methamphetamine and hashish, plus
other substances and materials used in drug production.[1]The drugs had been
seized over the previous three months in operations across different districts.[2]
The drugs were publicly burned at a ceremony attended by government officials
and tribal elders.[1]Jamshid warned that strict action would be taken against
anyone involved in producing or trafficking illegal drugs in the province.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
227
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Trafficking
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Kandahar Province
Sources
The Hawkthehawk.inOver 53 tons of illegal drugs burned in southern Afghanistan
No separate weight for the hashish within the 53-ton mixed total was published, so no cannabis quantity is recorded and the combined total is not counted as cannabis.
The 227 arrests cover involvement in the overall drug trade during the period, not cannabis specifically.
No court outcome, charges beyond involvement in the drug trade, or identities of those arrested were reported.
Both accounts reproduce the same provincial police statement via Xinhua, so they are not independent reporting.
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.
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.
