IEA steps up operations in fight against drugs: Akhundzada

Deputy Interior Minister for Counter-Narcotics Abdul Haq Akhandzada, said during a visit to Ghazni that the counter-narcotics department of the ministry has so far conducted 3,700 operations in the country.

Akhandzada said that based on a decree issued by the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan the cultivation, trafficking, sale and use of drugs is prohibited across the country.

The Islamic Emirate is determined to fight the problem and has also so far rounded up 75,000 drug addicts across the country and sent them for rehabilitation.

Of the 3,700 counter-narcotics operations that have been conducted, 147 drug factories were destroyed and 404 tons of drugs were discovered and also destroyed, Akhandzada added.