KULOB, August 30, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- An Afghan national has been detained in Khatlon’s Hamadoni district on suspicion of having been involved in drug trafficking.

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, the deputy chief of the Khatlon police directorate in charge of the Kulob region, Lieutenant-Colonel Abdurahmon Buzmakov, said that the alleged drug trafficker was detained by officers from the Hamadoni police department at the Tajik-Afghan border on August 28.  15 kilograms of marijuana were confiscated from him.  

Buzmakov noted that it is already the sixth Afghan national having been detained in the Kulob region for drug trafficking since the beginning of this year.   

In all, the Kulob law enforcement agencies have seized more than 200 kilograms of drugs since the beginning of this year.