Khaama Press: The Afghan Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz has narrowly escaped a possible HIV infection after he was attacked with a syringe by a drug addict, officials said Sunday. According to officials, the attack was pre-planned by those who are oppossed to shifting drug addicts from the city to a rehabilitation center. Click here to read more
QALAT, Afghanistan, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — Police in the southern Zabul province with Qalat as its capital 340 km south of Kabul set ablaze nine and half tons of illicit drug including heroin and hashish on Wednesday, provincial police chief Mir Wais Norzai said Thursday. “A total of 9.5 tons illicit drug including heroin, hashish
Tolo News: An additional 350 drug addicts were rounded up from Kabul’s Pul-e-Sokhtar area, with the cooperation of security forces, and moved to a rehabilitation facility center, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said on Sunday in a statement. The drug addicts were transferred by ambulances to the new treatment center on Saturday, read the statement.
Tolo News: The Counter Criminal Narcotics Justice Task Force (CJTF) officials said on Wednesday that the increase in drug production and trafficking in Afghanistan during 2015 is a matter of serious concern for the Afghan government. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: A major campaign has been launched by the government to collect and shift drug addicts from Kabul city and shift them to a former NATO base. The Ministry of Counter-Narcotics of Afghanistan in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health and Ministry of Economy has allocated parts of Camp Phoenix for the treatment of drug
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 22, 2015 More than 600 tons of opium have been seized in a joint operation between law enforcement officials from Russia and Afghanistan. The head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service said the drugs were seized in mid-December in the northern Afghan city of Doshi. Viktor Ivanov told a press
Ariana News: The Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MoCN) says that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan decreased 19 per cent in 2015, compared to the previous year. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV video description: An Afghan lawmaker has accused the US and NATO of benefiting from poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. He believes that the US-led foreign forces hinder local efforts to fight drug trafficking in the country. Meanwhile, a new UN report has put the total value of drugs trafficked from Afghanistan to Western Europe at
New York Times: KABUL, Afghanistan — EVEN though he goes to his office in an armored vehicle escorted by several guards, Yar Mohammad Hussainkhel takes a different route every morning, hoping to confuse the many enemies who want to kill him. Once Mr. Hussainkhel arrives at the fortified compound in the north of Kabul, Afghanistan’s