DUSHANBE, May 8, 2009, Asia-Plus -- Police have seized a large amount of hashish at the Tajik-Afghan border in Khatlon’s Farkhor district.

According to the Ministry of Interior (MoI), an operation carried out by police in the border village of Qizil Sou on May led to the arrest of Afghan national Abdurazzoq valadi Abdugaffor.  48 kilograms of hashish were confiscated from him.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the Afghan drug trafficker and an investigation is under way.

Over the first three months of this year, Tajik police have seized 780 kilograms of narcotics.  A totaled included 163.5 kilograms of heroin, 119 kilograms of raw opium and 497 kilograms of cannabis.  Besides, police officers have seized 51 ecstasy pills and some 20 grams of synthetic narcotic MDMA over the report period.

In all, all the law enforcement and power-wielding structures of Tajikistan have seized 1,050 kilograms of narcotics over the same three-month period.