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Afghan police arrest 13 drug traffickers

Xinhua, January 25, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Counter-Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) have arrested 13 drug smugglers over the past week and confiscated more than 1.5 tons of illicit drug, said an official statement released on Wednesday.

Cases of all the arrested smugglers have been referred to the Central Narcotics Tribunal (CNT), a special Afghan court for jurisdiction of major drug cases, the Counter-Narcotics Criminal Justice Task Force of Afghanistan (CJTF) said in the statement.

Some 4,800 tons of opium were harvested in 2016 in Afghan provinces where government security forces had little presence, according to Afghan officials. Endit