Two Afghans held in Tajikistan with over 36 kg of hashish
Tajik drug police detained two Afghan nationals from Kunduz and seized more than 36 kg of hashish during a special operation. Two more men were arrested in the same sweep, and criminal cases were opened with an investigation under way.
Officers of Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry drug-trafficking department detained
two Afghan nationals in Tajikistan during a special operation.[1]The two were
identified as Kunduz residents, 39-year-old Saidikrom valadi Saidislom and
32-year-old Khairmahmad Muhammad Muso.[1]Two other men, 40-year-old Dushanbe
resident Dilshod Lakaev and 36-year-old Farkhor native Jamshed Yusufov, were
also arrested for alleged drug trafficking.[1]
More than 36 kg of hashish was confiscated from the two Afghan detainees.[1]Asia-Plus said about 8 kg of opium was seized from the other two men.[1]Avesta described the same seizure from Lakaev and Yusufov as about 8 kg of
hashish.[2]
Criminal cases were opened into the seizures and an investigation was under way.[2]
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Avesta.tjavesta.tjRUМилиционеры задержали около 45 кг наркотиков. Арестованы четверо
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The article gives no separate date for the operation; Avesta says it took place накануне (the day before), so 28 April 2014 is the publication date used as the incident date.
The two sources contradict each other on the second seizure: Asia-Plus says about 8 kg of opium while Avesta says about 8 kg of hashish, so that weight is left out of cannabis figures and only the agreed 36 kg of hashish is recorded.
The sources name no town or district where the two Afghans were detained, so the place is recorded only as Tajikistan with country precision.
The hashish weight is given only as more than 36 kg, not an exact measured figure.
No charges, court outcome or measure of restraint beyond detention and opened criminal cases were reported.
Tajikistan's Interior Ministry detained nine suspected members of a drug group and seized 24 kg of hashish from a cache in Matchinsky district. The ministry says the Afghan-sourced hashish was meant for onward smuggling abroad and alleges the group moved about 550-600 kg since 2025.
Police in Tajikistan's Asht district detained four people from an alleged transnational group and seized 6.5 kg of hashish. Investigators allege the drugs came from Afghanistan for transit abroad; the detainees remain in pretrial detention while the investigation continues.
Tajik authorities detained seven suspected members of two transnational groups accused of moving Afghan hashish, opium and methamphetamine through Dushanbe and Rasht district for domestic sale and export. The cannabis component is established as hashish in mixed parcels and packets, but only combined drug totals were published, so no cannabis-only weight is recorded.
Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency detained a 21-year-old man in Bokhtar, Khatlon Region, as he met a buyer for 29 kg 560 g of hashish he had brought from the border area of the Jayhun district. A criminal case was opened under the article on drug trafficking in especially large amounts, and officers investigated.
