AVA- MoI, deputy minister for Narcotics said that they have conducted 764 operations to fight drug smuggling and drug production for the last four months in the country.
General Abdul Khalil Bakhtyar, DM, MoI talking to a press conference at GMIC on 26 Jul, 17 said, "874 drug smugglers have been arrested as result of these operations by Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan – CNPA. 140 of them are high level, 142 medium level and 578 others are small size smugglers."
Further,19 Opium Production factories have been destroyed and 116 Ton drug has been seized as result of operations by CNPA including Opium, Heroin, Hashish, Morphine, Alcohol, Shisha, Methamphetamine and Henbanes.
As per DM Bakhtyar, the seizure of opium is worth of $292 million rate inside Afghanistan. In case of smuggling outside Afghanistan, it would worth $900 million which is an enormous loss to smugglers.
DM Bakhtyar also delivered on the past four months CNPA operations in the capital Kabul and said, "CNPA conducted 300 operations which resulted at seizure of 4.5 Ton drugs, 364 arrested including 18 high level smugglers and the rest retailers."
He also said that in the past two days CNPA have seized 2.5 Ton of Alcohol in its operations.
