DUSHANBE, January 14, 2013, Asia-Plus  -- Officers from the Drug Control Agency (DCA)’s office for the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) have seized a large amount of narcotics in the Ishkashim district.

According to the DCA press center, Afghan national was detained in the village of Shanbedeh and some five kilograms of raw opium and eleven kilograms of hashish were confiscated from him.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the detained drug trafficker under the provisions of two articles of Tajikistan’ Penal Code: Article 289 (2) – illegal border crossing; and Article 200 (4) – drug trafficking.  An investigation is under way.