KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police have discovered a huge quantity of illicit drugs including 15 kg heroin and arrested 12 individuals on the charge of involvement in black business in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, provincial police spokesman Mullah Assadullah Jamshid said Tuesday.

The contraband, which includes 15 kg heroin, 689 kg hashish and objects used in manufacturing heroin and hundreds of intoxicant tablets, has been recovered during a series of operations over the past two days, the official said.

Police also destroyed 8 acres of poppy farms during the operations, the official added.

The Afghan interim government, which has outlawed poppy cultivation, drug production and drug trafficking, has vowed to fight the drug menace until the once-poppy-growing Afghanistan becomes a drug-free nation. Enditem

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