DUSHANBE, October 2, 2014, Asia-Plus -- Tajik police have discovered a large drug cache near the village of Navobod in the Shouroobod district of Khatlon province.

According to the Interior Ministry press center, five sacks of narcotic drug that tested positive to cannabis weighing 105 kilograms were extracted from the hide.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted and a search operation for owners of the cache is under way, the source said.