A band of 31 people including a Pakistani national who pleaded guilty for trafficking narcotics have been sentenced in Kabul to 10 to 30 years in prison over past week, anti-drug authority said on Tuesday.

Appellate courts of the Criminal Justice Task Force convicted and sentenced eleven drug traffickers to 10-30 years in prison after studying rulings made by the primary courts, said the authority. Twenty other criminals received various sentences by the CJTF’s courts.

Counter-Narcotics Police has seized 98 kilograms of heroin, 17 kg morphine, 20 kg opium, 286 kg crystal and 800 kg of Tablet-K had been confiscated from the drug runners, the authority said.

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