160 kg of hashish seized from a pick-up in Azra, Logar; no arrests
Afghan security forces raided Akbarkhel in Azra district, Logar, late on 24 January 2020 and seized about 160 kg of hashish hidden inside a pick-up vehicle. Police spokesman Shahpur Ahmadzai said no arrest was made, and a local elder described hashish as widely cultivated in the district.
🇦🇫 Akbarkhel, Azra district, Logar province · Afghanistan
Security forces raided the Akbarkhel area of Azra district in central Logar
province late on Friday, 24 January 2020, police spokesman Shahpur Ahmadzai told
Pajhwok Afghan News.[1]Officers seized about 160 kilograms of hashish in the
raid.[1]Ahmadzai said the hashish had been skillfully placed inside a pick-up
vehicle.[1]No arrest was made in the operation.[1]
Bismillah, a tribal elder from the area, said hashish was freely cultivated in
Azra district.[2]The elder claimed 80 percent of the district’s land was
cultivated with hashish.[2]He claimed drugs from eastern provinces arrived in
the district before being smuggled to other areas.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The raid date is inferred as 24 January 2020 from the publication date of 25 January and the raid being described as 'late on Friday'; the article gives no separate raid date.
The article says 'at least 160 kilograms' in its opening line and 'about 160 kilograms' in the spokesman's quote; no exact measured weight is given.
No later prosecution, charges, or court outcome is reported.
The Outlook Afghanistan version reproduces the Pajhwok dispatch and its attribution, so it is not an independent account of the seizure.
The elder's 80-percent cultivation claim concerns Azra district generally and not the area or quantity of this raid.
The 160 kg was seized from the vehicle, but the article does not say whether the vehicle's occupants fled; no suspects were named.
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