Four held in Takhar as police find 40 kg of hashish in a stopped car
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.
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Counter-narcotics police of Takhar Provincial Police Command
Counter-narcotics police in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province stopped a car
in the provincial capital, Taluqan, and arrested the four people who were using
it to take the load to an unknown destination.[1][2][3][4][5]The Takhar provincial police
spokesman, Naqibullah Masroor, said the counter-narcotics teams carried out the
operation on Saturday, 7 November 2026.[1][2]
Police said they seized143 kilograms of opium together with the cannabis, and
that both were hidden in compartments built into the car.[1][2][3][4][5]The cannabis in
the shipment was 40 kilograms of hashish, which police count within a stated
total of more than 180 kilograms of drugs.[6][2][3][4][5]The four detained suspects were
held as suspected drug traffickers; no charge or court outcome was reported.[1]
Masroor gave the details on Sunday, the day after the operation.[6][2][5]
The Punjabi-language report, carried by the Indian Punjabi news agency Wishav Warta, attributes the operation to counter-narcotics police and gives Naqibullah Masroor as the Takhar provincial police spokesman.[4]The report says the suspects were taken into custody, handed to judicial authorities and case files lodged for further legal action.[4]
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Open questions the AI reported
The event date rests on the police spokesman's statement that the operation was carried out on Saturday; both reports were published on Sunday 8 November 2026.
The hashish weight of 40 kilograms is the spokesman's figure; the page does not say whether a laboratory confirmed the substance.
The total of more than 180 kilograms is the police's combined figure for opium and hashish and does not match the two separate amounts exactly; only the hashish part is recorded as cannabis.
No charges, judicial referral date or court outcome are reported for the four detainees, and they are not named.
A separate operation seized 32 kilograms of methamphetamine and arrested two people in Herat province; that is a different event and its figures are left out of this report.
The İLKHA page is a Turkish agency's Arabic-language edition translating the provincial police statement, so it is not independent reporting; Xinhua's dispatch carries the same spokesman's account.
The page's only photo is a stock-style lead image carried in the agency's featured-image address; no caption identifies what it depicts, so no claim is made about its content.
The same page also describes a 32 kg methamphetamine seizure in Herat, dismantling of eight heroin laboratories in Ghor, and a burning of nearly one tonne of drugs in Farah; those are different events left out of this report.
The Punjabi report says the suspects were handed to judicial authorities and case files lodged, but places this inside a passage attributed to a provincial police spokesman named Maulvi Abdul Rahman Badri, who in the same text is quoted on the separate Ghor laboratory raid; the statement is not clearly tied to the Takhar arrests.
The Punjabi text adds a closing paragraph about a cross-country anti-drug campaign and another arrest attributed to a spokesman whose name does not resolve in the text, so no charge or court outcome for the four Takhar detainees can be confirmed from it.
The Punjabi page also repeats the separate 32 kg Herat methamphetamine seizure and the Ghor laboratory raid; those figures are left out because they are different events and methamphetamine is not cannabis.
The page's lead photo is captioned only with the headline and carries no credit confirming what it depicts, so it is listed as a media link without a claim about its content.
The Hawk also describes a 32 kg methamphetamine seizure in Herat, the dismantling of eight heroin laboratories in Ghor, and a burning of nearly one tonne of drugs in Farah; those are different events left out of this report.
The event date of Saturday 7 November 2026 rests on the spokesman's statement as relayed in this and earlier reports; 8 November 2026 is this page's publication date.
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.
Ghor police burned more than 800 kg of seized narcotics, including 4 kg of hashish, at a site away from residential areas on 20 July 2026. The hashish is the separately stated cannabis component of the mixed destruction, which also included opium, methamphetamine and precursor chemicals.
