DUSHANBE, May 21, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik border troops warded off an attempt by Afghan drug trafficker to smuggle a large amount of narcotic drug into Tajikistan.

Khoushnoud Rahmatulloyev, a spokesman for the main border directorate within the State Committee for National Security (GKNB), said the border guards spotted and detained trespasser who was illegally crossing the border river in Khatlon’s Panj district at the end of last week. 

The trespasser provide to be 27-year-old resident of Afghanistan’s Kunduz province Abdughaffor valadi Abdulaziz.  Seven kilograms of raw opium were confiscated from him. 

When searching the area, the border guards discovered a drug cache containing 22 kilograms of heroin, 18 kilograms of Afghan chars and 4.5 kilograms of raw opium, the spokesman said.