DUSHANBE, February 11, 2016, Asia-Plus – An Afghan national has been detained with a large amount of hashish in the border area of the Shugnan District in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
According to the Drug Control Agency (DCA) press center, a joint operation carried out by drug control officers and servicemen of the Khorog border unit on February 10 led to the arrest of a resident of the Shighnan District of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province in the Meydonak area in the Porshnev Jamoat of GBAO’s Shugnan District.
Two packages of narcotic drug that tested positive to hashish weighing 2.032 kilograms were confiscated from him.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the alleged drug trafficker and an investigation is under way.
