Loralai
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| Loralai | |
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| ActiveCannabis last recorded here in 2026 | |
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| The flat-topped rock of Chinjan, Loralai District | |
| Geography | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province/State | Balochistan |
| District | Loralai District |
| Coordinates | 30.37, 68.60 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 1,200 km² |
| Terrain | Valleys of Loralai and Mekhtar tehsils; approximately Loralai District, less its bare and sparsely vegetated ground |
| Growing history | |
| Dated news reports | 2026 |
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| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Loralai is a landrace cannabis growing area in Loralai District, in north-eastern Balochistan, Pakistan. In 2024 and 2025 the district administration, the police, the Levies and the provincial excise department destroyed standing crops of bhang (cannabis) at several villages in the Loralai and Mekhtar tehsils.[1][2] In September 2026 the district's anti-narcotics committee reviewed a survey carried out to find where cannabis was being grown in the district.[3]
Reports of cultivation
In November 2024 an operation led by the deputy commissioner, Miran Baloch, with the assistant commissioners of Loralai and Mekhtar, the police and 80 Levies men began at Nali Azam and the Sanda Mor area in Mekhtar tehsil, where bhang grown on 10 acres was destroyed. The deputy commissioner said the operation would go on until the crop in Loralai and Mekhtar had been destroyed.[1] In the same week police and Levies destroyed 7 acres of bhang and 11 acres of opium poppy in an operation at Kali Minar Kalan, Kali Minar Khurd and Ghazgi Camp.[4] By 11 November the deputy commissioner had destroyed bhang grown on 80 acres. At the same time the president of the Loralai landowners' action committee, Malik Ismatullah Kadizai, urged landowners to grow olives, saffron and chillies instead. He said drugs were still being grown in many places.[5] By December the deputy commissioner had destroyed about 90 acres of bhang, against a target of 100.[6]
In late September 2025 the excise department, with the Anti-Narcotics Force, the district administration and the police, destroyed cannabis grown on 13 acres in the Nali Azam area of Mekhtar, according to the Daily Independent.[7] An Associated Press of Pakistan report of 1 October put the crop destroyed by the excise department and the Anti-Narcotics Force at 3 acres at Ganda Ghozai and 10 acres at Sarki Jungle and Fateh Khan Qila.[2] By 3 October bhang on 10 acres and opium poppy on one acre had been destroyed at Kali Minara.[8]
In October 2025 the senior superintendent of police, Ahmad Sultan, told the district's tribal elders that the opium and bhang season was beginning. Anyone who grew a drug crop that year, he said, would face legal action and could have their identity card blocked and their land taken into government custody; he urged landowners to plant olives.[9] In November police destroyed a ready crop of bhang on 5 acres at Kali Rarkarez.[10] An operation across Mekhtar tehsil destroyed about 50 acres of "cannabis, opium, and hemp crops", according to the Daily Independent. The same operation dismantled 47 illegal solar-powered boreholes.[11]
In December 2025 district officials said that 390 acres of bhang had been destroyed in the previous three months and that 115 landowners who grew drug crops had been listed; they said drug cultivation in Loralai and the neighbouring areas had increased in recent years. In raids at Sharan Alizai, Mauza Sarmalak and Kali Naganga the assistant commissioner of Bori seized and burned 1,650 kg of bhang and charas.[12]
On 13 September 2026 the district committee against narcotics, chaired by the deputy commissioner, Muhammad Haseeb Shuja, reviewed the survey of possible bhang cultivation across the district. He directed that the survey be completed on time, that its figures be verified and that action be taken under the law wherever a crop was found.[3]
Earlier reports
Before the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission the only control on ganja, charas and bhang in the district had been the annual auction of the right to sell them at shops the political agent sanctioned. Local cultivation of the hemp plant "was stopped in 1896 throughout the Agency", in the words of the district gazetteer of 1907. In 1905 the district had 17 licensed shops. Bhang was then mostly imported from Bhag, in the territory of the Khan of Kalat; charas came from Rajanpur and Amritsar in the Punjab.[13]: 298 In 1904–05 the district consumed about 3 maunds 35 seers of charas and 2 maunds 37 seers of bhang; no ganja was sold.[13]: 299 The drugs were used mainly by the Indian population at Loralai and elsewhere in the district; the gazetteer adds that a few landowners "of low position" and beggars in the Duki tahsil used them to some extent, while the Afghans from across the border in the Bori tahsil used charas and opium.[13]: 300
In 1977 a government fact-finding mission, after visiting the cannabis fields of Qila Saifullah in Zhob, went on towards Loralai, "where the main road extended into the sub-mountains". In a village of seven houses it found three acres of cannabis in seven small fields; part of the crop was being harvested and the rest had been burned the day before.[14]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "میختر میں 10 ایکڑ پر کاشت کی گئی بھنگ چرس کی فصل تلف کر دی" [Bhang (charas) crop cultivated on 10 acres destroyed in Mekhtar]. UrduPoint (in اردو). NNI. 6 November 2024. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
کاروائی میں تحصیل میختر میں 10 ایکڑ پر کاشت کی گئی بھنگ چرس کی فصل تلف کر دی گئی۔
[In the operation the bhang (charas) crop cultivated on 10 acres in Mekhtar tehsil was destroyed.] - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "لورالائی میں منشیات کے خلاف کریک ڈاؤن، 13 ایکڑ پر کاشت بھنگ کی فصل تلف" [Crackdown on drugs in Loralai: bhang crop cultivated on 13 acres destroyed]. UrduPoint (in اردو). Associated Press of Pakistan. 1 October 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
گندہ غوژی میں 3 ایکڑ اور سرکی جنگل اور فتح خان قلعہ میں 10 ایکڑ پر غیر قانونی طور پر کاشت کی گئی بھنگ (چرس) کی فصل کو مکمل طور پر تلف کر دیا گیا۔
[The bhang (charas) crop illegally cultivated on 3 acres at Ganda Ghozai and on 10 acres at Sarki Jungle and Fateh Khan Qila was completely destroyed.] - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "ضلع لورالائی میں بھنگ کی کاشت کے خاتمے کیلئے کسی قسم کی غفلت یا کوتاہی برداشت نہیں کی جائیگی،ڈپٹی کمشنر" [No negligence or lapse will be tolerated in ending bhang cultivation in Loralai District, says deputy commissioner]. UrduPoint (in اردو). NNI. 13 September 2026. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
اجلاس کے دوران ضلع بھر میں بھنگ کی ممکنہ کاشت کی نشاندہی کے لیے کیے گئے سروے، مختلف علاقوں سے موصول ہونے والی رپورٹس اور متعلقہ اداروں کی جانب سے پیش کردہ اعداد و شمار کا تفصیلی جائزہ لیا گیا۔
[During the meeting the survey carried out to identify possible bhang cultivation across the district, the reports received from various areas and the figures submitted by the departments concerned were reviewed in detail.] - ↑ "لورالائی ، مختلف علاقوں میں کاشت کی گئی بنگ اور کوکنار کی فصل تلف" [Loralai: bhang and poppy crops cultivated in various areas destroyed]. Daily Intekhab (in اردو). 7 November 2024. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
آپریشن کے دوران 11 ایکڑ پر کاشت کیا گیا تیار کوکنار (تاریاک) کی فصل اور 7 ایکڑ پر کاشت شدہ بھنگ (چرس) کو مکمل طور پر تلف کر دیا گیا۔
[During the operation the ready poppy (opium) crop cultivated on 11 acres and the bhang (charas) cultivated on 7 acres were completely destroyed.] - ↑ "لورالائی، 80 ایکٹر پر کاشت کی گئی بھنگ چرس کی فصل تلف" [Loralai: bhang (charas) crop cultivated on 80 acres destroyed]. UrduPoint (in اردو). Associated Press of Pakistan. 11 November 2024. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
ڈپٹی کمشنر لورالائی میران بلوچ نے 80 ایکٹر پر کاشت کی گئی بھنگ چرس کی فصل کو تلف کر دیا۔
[Deputy Commissioner Loralai Miran Baloch destroyed the bhang (charas) crop cultivated on 80 acres.] - ↑ "پوست فصل کی افغانستان میں مکمل پابندی کے بعدمنشیات فروشوں نے لورالائی کی طرف روخ کرلیا، رپورٹ" [After the complete ban on the poppy crop in Afghanistan, drug traffickers turn towards Loralai: report]. Daily Intekhab (in اردو). UNA. 2 December 2024. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
ڈپٹی کمشنر نے 100ایکٹر بھنگ کی فصل تلف کرنے کا حدف رکھکر تقریبا 90ایکٹر پر کاشت کی گئی بھنگ کی فصل تلف کی تھی
[the deputy commissioner, having set a target of destroying 100 acres of bhang crop, destroyed the bhang crop cultivated on about 90 acres] - ↑ "13 Acres of Cannabis Crop Destroyed in Loralai Operation". Daily Independent. 28 September 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ "انسدادِ منشیات مہم کے دوران بھنگ، چرس اور افیون کی کاشت تلف" [Bhang, charas and opium cultivation destroyed during anti-narcotics campaign]. UrduPoint (in اردو). Online. 3 October 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
کارروائی کے دوران 10 ایکڑ رقبے پر کاشت بھنگ اور چرس کو تلف کر دیا گیا جبکہ ایک ایکڑ پر زیرِ کاشت افیون کو بھی مکمل طور پر ختم کر دیا گیا۔
[During the operation the bhang and charas cultivated on 10 acres were destroyed, and the opium under cultivation on one acre was also completely eliminated.] - ↑ "ایس ایس پی لورالائی احمد سلطان کی زیرِ صدارت مختلف اقوام کے مشران اور قبائلی عمائدین کے ساتھ ایک اہم اجلاس منعقد ہوا۔" [An important meeting of elders and tribal notables of various tribes held under the chairmanship of SSP Loralai Ahmad Sultan]. Daily Askar (in اردو). 10 October 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
اس سال اگر کسی نے منشیات کی فصل کاشت کی تو اس کے خلاف قانونی کارروائی کی جائے گی، جس سے ان کا شناختی کارڈ بلاک اور زمین سرکاری تحویل میں لی جا سکتی ہے
[if anyone cultivates a drug crop this year, legal action will be taken against them, under which their identity card can be blocked and the land taken into government custody] - ↑ "لورالائی پولیس کی منشیات کے خلاف کارروائی — پانچ ایکڑ پر بھنگ کی فصل تلف" [Loralai police act against drugs: bhang crop on five acres destroyed]. Daily Askar (in اردو). 5 November 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
کلی ڑڑکاریز کے علاقے میں 5 ایکڑ پر پھیلی بھنگ (چرس) کی تیار فصل کو تلف کر دیا۔
[destroyed the ready crop of bhang (charas) spread over 5 acres in the Kali Rarkarez area.] - ↑ "Massive Crackdown Launched Against Illegal Drug Cultivation in Loralai". Daily Independent. 3 November 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ "لورالائی میں بھنگ اور منشیات کے خلاف بڑی کارروائی، 1650 کلو بھنگ برآمد و تلف" [Major action against bhang and drugs in Loralai: 1,650 kg of bhang recovered and destroyed]. Nazrban (in اردو). 7 December 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
ضلعی حکام کے مطابق گزشتہ تین ماہ کے جاری آپریشن میں بھنگ کی 390 ایکڑ فصل ختم کی جا چکی ہے
[According to district officials, 390 acres of bhang crop have been eliminated in the operation running over the past three months] - ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Minchin, C. F., ed. (1907). Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series, Vol. II: Loralai District. Allahabad: Pioneer Press – via Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics.
- ↑ Zaidi, S. M. H.; Ashraf, S. M.; Afridi, A. A. (1982). "Programme development of drug abuse control in Baluchistan, Pakistan". Bulletin on Narcotics (1). United Nations: 23–26.