Security forces captured several suspected insurgents linked to a drug cache in Zharay district, Kandahar, on 27 March 2011. The operation seized 1,500 pounds of marijuana and 350 pounds of marijuana seeds, as reported by military officials.
🇦🇫 Zharay district, Kandahar province · Afghanistan
Security forces in Kandahar province’s Zharay district captured several
suspected insurgents linked to a drug cache.[1]Military officials reported
the Zharay action in a Washington statement datelined 28 March 2011.[1]The
statement lists the Zharay action among other operations yesterday, placing the
capture on 27 March 2011.[1]
The operations linked to that Zharay cache resulted in seizure of 1,500 pounds,
about 680 kg, of marijuana.[1]The same Zharay cache operation also yielded
350 pounds of marijuana seeds.[1]Officials described those captured only as
several suspected insurgents and tied them to the drug cache rather than naming
them.[1]
The U.S. Army published the account on 29 March 2011 from the International
Security Assistance Force Joint Command.[1]The wider roundup also describes a
coalition airstrike in Paktika’s Bermal district that killed more than 10
insurgents, showing the Zharay seizure was one item in a multi-province
operational summary.[1]The same summary separately lists weapons and drug
stockpiles found throughout Afghanistan in other actions.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The incident date of 27 March 2011 is inferred because the 28 March 2011 datelined statement describes the Zharay operation as among operations yesterday, while the page was published 29 March 2011.
Those captured are described only as several suspected insurgents, so no arrested number can be recorded.
The reported 350 pounds of marijuana seeds are not counted in kg_seized; only the 1,500 pounds of marijuana, about 680 kg, is counted as cannabis weight.
No suspect names, charges, monetary value, disposal method or later case outcome were published.
Only one accessible account of this exact seizure was found after searching in English; no second source could be opened.
Other killings, detentions, weapons finds and opium and heroin seizures listed in the same roundup are separate events left out of this cannabis report.
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.
