Afghan Airport Police Foil Drug Trafficking to India

Afghan airport police foil drug trafficking to India

KABUL, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Police in Kabul International Airportthwarted an attempt to take heroin to India and arrested one person, said a press release from Afghan Interior Ministry issued here Monday.

“Airport police during routine search of a passenger at Kabul airport found 10 kg heroin and detained the man,” it said.

The man was attempting to smuggle the drugs to New Delhi, the press release said.

However, it did not identify the nationality of the alleged smuggler.

Police at Kabul airport have arrested more than a dozen people including some Africans over the past couple of years on charge oftrafficking drug outside the country.

Afghanistan, with an output of 8,200 tons of opium poppy in 2007, has topped all poppy growing countries in producing the raw material used in manufacturing heroin in the world.

(c) 2008 Xinhua News Agency – CEIS. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.