Afghan Official: 650 Tons of Drugs Seized in Past 12 Months
VOA News April 4, 2017 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — An Afghan official says that in the past 12 months the country’s counter-narcotics department has seized almost 650 tons of contraband drugs and alcohol. Gen. Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, deputy interior minister for the counter-narcotics police, says the confiscated drugs include raw opium, heroin and hashish. He says that