KABUL, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Police have arrested five drug sellers in the northern Afghanistan's Balkh province and confiscated illicit drugs, including intoxicated tablets, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement on Sunday.
The suspects were selling the illegal drugs on the streets of Balkh provincial capital Mazar-i-Sharif as police identified them and took them into custody, the statement said, adding police discovered 22,000 pieces of intoxicated tablets locally known as Tablet K, 14 kg of opium poppy, nine kg of hashish and a pistol. ■
