The findings of the United Nations on the situation of drug trafficking through the northern borders of Afghanistan to Central Asia show that traffickers are trying to change the types of drugs smuggled along this route.
The findings of the United Nations on the situation of drug trafficking through the northern borders of Afghanistan to Central Asia show that traffickers are trying to change the types of drugs smuggled along this route.
Officials at the United Nations Office for Countering Substances in South Asia say that in the past, Iran was the biggest smuggling route and a major source of discovery and seizure of smuggled drugs from Afghanistan, but in recent years, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have also become major routes for drug trafficking.
Mrs. Ashita Mittal, the representative of the United Nations Office on Countering Substances in Central Asia, while speaking at the Herat Security Summit in Tajikistan last week and on November 28, said that the smuggling of shisha (a synthetic drug) from Afghanistan to Central Asia is increasing. increased by:
“Data on drug detection rates between 2017 and 2023 shows that glass seizures have increased 12-fold during this period. This means that traffickers control the drug market and the demand for its types. Today, we are witnessing not only drug trafficking across borders, but the Internet has also become a channel for drug trafficking and sales. “
Ms. Mittal called regional and global cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking necessary, because according to her, the world should prevent the smuggling of chemicals to Afghanistan, which are necessary materials for the production of heroin and other types of these synthetic drugs.
This regional official of the United Nations said that due to the decrease in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the price of taro in the regional markets has increased from 150 dollars to 700 dollars.
Said Najibullah Ahmadi, the former head of the anti-narcotics department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Afghanistan, believes that the special services of the countries of the region are involved in the production and smuggling of drugs from the country.
“The market for methamphetamine (a type of amphetamine) is very developed. There are enterprises in various regions that are provided by special security groups, and currently, unfortunately, the glass of Afghanistan has reached faraway countries, and the United Nations and countries that fight against drugs are focused on Afghanistan and prepare special reports from it. “
Although in the latest report on the situation of drugs in Afghanistan, the United Nations reported a significant decrease in the cultivation of poppy, but in this report it was emphasized that simultaneously with the decrease in the cultivation of poppy, the production of chemical drugs, especially glass, is increasing in this country.
Officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan said last year that only in one case in 2022, they burned about a ton of drugs, part of which was amphetamine, methamphetamine. According to the authorities, unlike previous years, the illegal circulation of synthetic narcotic pills, the use of which is extremely dangerous for health, has increased.
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