Kabul: Models of counter-narcotics police have foiled makes an attempt to smuggle some 1,000 kg of illicit medication and objects utilized in manufacturing heroin in western Afghanistan’s Nimroz province, Provincial Director for Counter-Narcotics Police Abdul Wasi Raihan mentioned Saturday. With out offering extra particulars, the official admitted that nobody had been arrested.
In related operations, police apprehended a drug smuggler and found 66 kg opium poppy from his possession in Kang district of Nimroz province on Wednesday, district police chief Mawlawi Ahmad Sayed mentioned.
The Afghan caretaker authorities, which has banned poppy cultivation, processing of medicine and drug trafficking, has vowed to battle the menace till the once-poppy rising nation turns into a drug-free nation. Afghanistan, a rustic deeply affected by a long time of warfare and civil strife, is reportedly house to greater than three million drug addicts.
To beat the problem, the Afghan caretaker authorities, which has banned poppy cultivation and drug trafficking, has dedicated to eradicating drug manufacturing and dependancy. Presently, a complete of 550 rehabilitated drug addicts are receiving coaching to grow to be expert employees contained in the Aghosh camp, a vocational centre in Pul-e-Charkhi locality on the japanese fringe of Kabul metropolis, Xinhua information company reported.
“I’ve been residing within the Aghosh camp for 5 months. I’m in good well being and dealing on the shoe-making challenge,” mentioned Faridullah, a recovered addict, who has been studying shoe-making artwork to open a store sooner or later.
Expressing hatred towards heroin and all types of illicit medication, the previous drug-addict mentioned utilizing medication destroys the persona of an individual and discards him out of the society. “Utilizing medication destroys your life and property. They wreck your honour and credibility, each at house and within the society,” he mentioned. “My aim sooner or later is to open a shoemaking store after popping out from right here, so I can assist myself and my household.”
He additionally had a message for drug addicts, “I urge these hooked on medication to surrender illicit medication and be part of a rehabilitation centre. There, they’ll be taught a ability and obtain instruments they should work for themselves,” he mentioned.
Former drug addict Sayed Yasar Sadat, 22, a former college pupil, was learning electro-mechanics on the camp with the hope of changing into an electrician. He deliberate to open a store to restore digital units as soon as he completes his four-month coaching course and receives his certificates.
“The length of every course is 4 months, and over the previous one 12 months and a half, 1,600 people have graduated,” mentioned Ezatullah Rahmat, Director of the camp. “After three months of remedy, recovering addicts are transferred to this camp, the place 550 recovered people are presently receiving coaching to grow to be expert employees.”
