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Large narcotics yield confiscated on border

    ISLAMABAD

    Russian border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border have confiscated over 1.5 mt of narcotics from early March to late August, including 372 kg of heroin, the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported on Thursday. In a meeting with the Russian Federal Border Guard Service in Tajikistan, Maj-General Aleksandr Markin told a group of commanders in Dushanbe on Thursday of the results, adding 74 transgressors had been detained on the Tajik stretch of the southern border of the CIS in spring and summer, the report said. During this period, there were 24 clashes with border transgressors, the report added.

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