Kabul, July 5 (IANS) Afghan police have confiscated 60 kg of illicit drugs and arrested two suspected drug smugglers in a targeted operation in northern Takhar province, a local police official reported. The smugglers had concealed 52 kg of opium and 8 kg of hashish in hidden sections within a vehicle while attempting to transport it to an unknown destination on Saturday. However, police uncovered the drugs during the raid, said Nizamudin Omir, the provincial police spokesman.In the fight agains…
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Kabul, June 30 (IANS) The counter-narcotics police in the fight against illegal drugs have discovered and destroyed a drug-processing lab in Helmand province south of Afghanistan, said a statement of provincial directorate for Information and Culture on Tuesday. The illegal laboratory was spotted in Baghran district on Monday, the statement said, adding that police also seized a huge quantity of illegal objects that were used in making illegal drugs from the site of operations.No one has been ar…
Kabul, March 13 (IANS) Afghan border forces have confiscated 30 Beretta pistols during a targeted intelligence-led operation in southern Kandahar province, a local security official said on Friday. The operation was conducted by security personnel in the Tor Kach area of Maruf district, where the firearms were intercepted while being smuggled into Afghanistan from a neighbouring country, according to Nazir Ahmad Shakeeb, spokesman for the 205 Al-Badr Army Corps, Xinhua News Agency reported.Shake…
Kabul, Feb 2 (IANS) Police have recovered arms and ammunition from a car and taken two suspected smugglers into custody in eastern Paktia province, a statement from the provincial police office said Monday. The weapons, which included a Kalashnikov assault rifle, two hand grenades and a quantity of ammunition, were found in the car at a checkpoint on a road on Sunday afternoon, the statement said.Police also detained two individuals for allegedly attempting to smuggle the weapons and referred th…
Kabul, Jan 30 (IANS) Afghan security forces have seized and confiscated dozens of firearms and a large quantity of ammunition in southern Helmand province during a three-month counter-terrorism operation, a local police official announced. Mawlawi Sayed Wali Saeed, the provincial counter-terrorism manager, said Thursday 26 individuals were arrested in connection with the weapons haul, Xinhua News Agency reported.On January 9, provincial police chief Mawlawi Abdul Haq Haqqani said police have dis…
Kabul, Jan 9 (IANS) Police have discovered a weapon cache containing a variety of arms and ammunition in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan, provincial police chief Mawlawi Abdul Haq Haqqani said Friday. The weaponry was recovered from Deh Salah district on Thursday, the official added.Without providing further details, the official stressed that no one has the right to keep or carry arms illegally, and police would spare no effort to collect weaponry from unauthorized persons to ensure la…
Kabul, Dec 31 (IANS) The counter-terrorism police have discovered and confiscated a cache of armaments and ammunition in eastern Afghanistan’s Khost province, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday. The seizure, including two rocket launchers, 15 hand grenades, 1,100 rounds of PK machine-gun, two boxes of assorted ammunition, 24 rocket rounds, and 24 rocket propellant charges, occurred during a series of counter-terrorism operations in the province’s Zazi Maidan distri…