Drug Seizures and Trafficking Routes - Tajikistan

As shown on the map, seizures made in 2007 by the Drug Control Agency under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan make it possible to identify possible drug trafficking routes from Afghanistan to Tajikistan and further. Places of seizures along the Tajik-Afghan border point to the following main crossing points: Farkhor (200 kg), Ishkashim (up to 50 kg), Shuroobod (less than 10 kg), Shugnan (Khorugh, less than 10 kg).

Seizures along Hamadoni, Pyandj and Darvaz would likely have been present given more data on seizures registered by other law enforcement agencies in Tajikistan. Drugs entering Tajikistan are transported to Samarkand[1], Surkhandarya and Tashkent[2] provinces in Uzbekistan.

Drugs exiting Sughd oblast in Tajikistan are transported through Batken province to Osh province in Kyrgyzstan. A portion of these drugs then move west to Uzbekistan. From Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous province (Tajikistan) heroin is trafficked to Osh province of Kyrgyzstan.

Estimates of Tajik law enforcement agencies suggest that 5% of heroin transported through Tajikistan is absorbed and consumed in the country, 80% goes to the Russian Federation, and 15% to other CIS countries.^[3]