Afghan forces dismantle eight heroin laboratories, arrest 17 suspects in Ghor

Kabul, Nov 1 (UNI) Afghan security forces have dismantled eight clandestine heroin processing laboratories and arrested 17 suspected drug traffickers in western Ghor province, a provincial police official said on Sunday. Counter-narcotics units carried out a targeted operation on the outskirts of Chaharsada district following intelligence inputs and a tip-off, destroying the laboratories and seizing large quantities of precursor chemicals and narcotics used in heroin production, provincial police spokesman Mawlawi Abdul Rahman Badri said. The suspects have been taken into custody and handed over to judicial authorities, with case files submitted for further legal proceedings, Badri said, Xinhua News Agency…