A board meeting of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) has reviewed the results of work carried out by the Committee in 2017, Mohammad Ulughkhojayev, a spokesman for the SCNS Main Border Guard Directorate, told Asia-Plus Tuesday afternoon.
Last year reportedly saw thirty-one engagements between Tajik border guards and armed drug smugglers on the Tajik-Afghan border. Eighteen trespassers were reportedly killed and twenty others were detained, according to the Main Border Guard Directorate press center.
In 2017, Tajik border guards jointly with servicemen of other Tajik power-wielding structures reportedly carried out seventy-four special operations, including forty-six special operations carried out in cooperation with the SCNS officers.
Last year, Tajik border guards jointly with representatives of other Tajik power-wielding structures seized 1,740.3 kilograms of narcotic drugs. A totaled reportedly included 27.3 kilograms of heroin, 455.6 kilograms of raw opium, 865.7 kilograms of hashish, 386.8 kilograms of cannabis and 4.9 kilograms of methamphetamine.
Besides, Tajik border guards seized twenty-five firearms, 605 bullets of different caliber and nine hand grenades over the report period, Ulughkhojayev added.
