7 held with 73kg hashish bound for Pakistan in Nangarhar
Border police arrested seven people near the Durand Line in Dur Baba district, Nangarhar, seizing 73kg of hashish. Officials said the group was trying to smuggle the hashish to Pakistan, days after 12 others were held for smuggling in the same area.
🇦🇫 Dur Baba district, Nangarhar province · Afghanistan
Border police arrested seven persons along with 73 kilograms of drugs in Dur
Baba district of eastern Nangarhar province, as reported from Jalalabad.[1]Officials said the detainees wanted to smuggle those drugs from Nangarhar to
Pakistan.[1]Wahidullah Mohammadi, identified as spokesman for the 201 Khalid
Bin Walid Corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News that security forces arrested the
suspects near the Durand Line and recovered the hashish from them.[1]
The drugs recovered from the suspects were identified as 73 kilograms of
hashish.[1]According to Mohammadi’s information, the suspects were arrested
at the time when they wanted to smuggle the hashish across the Durand Line
toward Pakistan.[1]Mohammadi provided the details of the operation to Pajhwok
Afghan News as the corps spokesman.[1]
The account added that the operation came days after security forces arrested 12
people over drug smuggling in the same area.[1]The report described the
incident as a foiled bid to smuggle 73kg of hashish to Pakistan.[1]
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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.
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said counter-narcotics officers arrested three people on drug trafficking and sales charges in separate operations in Kabul's 11th security district and Bagrami district. Officers seized more than three kilograms of hashish along with 1,382 capsules, tablet K, heroin and 24 litres of alcohol, and destroyed an alcohol factory.
Farza district's security command in Kabul province said police arrested 18 people during a ten-day operation and seized more than 23 kg of hashish alongside tens of thousands of narcotic tablets. Officers also seized seven vehicles said to have been used to move drugs between provinces.
Border forces in eastern Nangarhar province arrested 27 people accused of attempting to smuggle hashish and opium into Pakistan. A military corps spokesman said the suspects were detained in the Landa Khwala area of Dur Baba district and confessed after being referred to judicial organs.