Qila Abdullah
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| Qila Abdullah | |
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| Killa Abdullah | |
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| Geography | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province/State | Balochistan |
| District | Killa Abdullah District |
| Coordinates | 30.72, 66.64 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 600 km² |
| Terrain | Valleys of Gulistan, Qila Abdullah and Dobandi tehsils on the border with Afghanistan; approximately Qila Abdullah District, less its bare and sparsely vegetated ground |
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| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
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| Populations | none documented yet |
Qila Abdullah is a landrace cannabis growing area in Qila Abdullah District, in north-western Balochistan, Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan. Since September 2025 the provincial excise department, the district administration, the Frontier Corps (North) and the Anti-Narcotics Force have destroyed cannabis crops in Dobandi tehsil and at Gulistan Karez and Sagai in Gulistan tehsil.[1][2] The reported areas range from several acres to 600 acres of bhang (cannabis) in a single operation.[3]
Crop destruction in 2025
In September 2025 the North Zone office of the provincial excise and anti-narcotics department in Quetta, with the district administration and the police, destroyed bhang and opium poppy grown on several acres at places in Dobandi tehsil and elsewhere in Qila Abdullah.[1] The department's "Bhang Elimination Campaign 2025" began on 1 November. In an operation under it, about 40 acres of charas, bhang and opium crops were destroyed in various parts of the district; the plants were burned.[4]
The Balochistan Pulse reported on 4 November that a phase of the campaign at Gulistan Karez and Sagai, assisted by the Anti-Narcotics Force, had cleared 310 acres of cannabis in two days. Drones, satellite mapping and heavy machinery were used to find and destroy the fields. A departmental spokesman said that 270 acres had been destroyed by hand and that another 40 acres had withered for lack of water. The same report put the illicit crops destroyed across the province in the drive so far at more than 2,054 acres.[2] The next day Express Urdu reported that the Frontier Corps (North), the Anti-Narcotics Force and civil agencies had destroyed bhang grown on 600 acres in the district. An operation was going on against bhang on a further 650 acres in Balochistan; the deputy commissioner said the land would be watched to stop the crop being sown again.[3]
In the middle of November the deputy commissioner, Munawar Hussain Magsi, said that opium poppy and bhang on 2,000 acres had been destroyed in a joint operation of the district administration and the law-enforcement agencies. He added that drug factories in Gulistan tehsil had been raided and that 21 factories making ice and charas at Nurak Sulaiman Khel had been set on fire.[5]
Campaign of 2026
In October 2026 the excise department scheduled its "anti-bhang campaign 2026" in the district: in the areas of Dobandi from 15 to 22 October and in Gulistan and Qila Abdullah from 21 October to 1 November. It asked the Chaman Scouts, the Muslim Bagh Scouts and the district police for men. It reported destroying standing crops of bhang and charas at places in the district.[6] By 20 October raids had been going on at places in Dobandi for three days.[7]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "قلعہ عبداللہ کے مختلف مقامات پر کئی ایکڑ رقبے پر کاشت کی گئی بھنگ اور افیون کی فصل کو تلف کر دیا گیا" [Bhang and opium crop cultivated on several acres at various places in Qila Abdullah destroyed]. UrduPoint (in اردو). NNI. 27 September 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
اس کارروائی میں تحصیل دو بندی اور قلعہ عبداللہ کے مختلف مقامات پر کئی ایکڑ رقبے پر کاشت کی گئی بھنگ اور افیون کی فصل کو تلف کر دیا گیا ہے
[In this action the bhang and opium crop cultivated on several acres at various places in Dobandi tehsil and Qila Abdullah has been destroyed] - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Balochistan Intensifies Drive Against Illegal Cannabis Cultivation". Balochistan Pulse. 4 November 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "بلوچستان میں 600 ایکڑ پر کاشت غیر قانونی بھنگ کی فصل تلف" [Illegal bhang crop cultivated on 600 acres destroyed in Balochistan]. Express Urdu (in اردو). 5 November 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
بلوچستان کے ضلع قلعہ عبداللہ میں ایف سی نارتھ ، اے این ایف اور سول اداروں نے مشترکہ آپریشن میں 600 ایکڑ پر غیر قانونی طور پر کاشت کی گئی بھنگ کی فصل تلف کردی۔
[In Qila Abdullah District, Balochistan, FC North, the ANF and civil agencies destroyed in a joint operation the bhang crop illegally cultivated on 600 acres.] - ↑ "قلعہ عبداللہ میں منشیات کی غیر قانونی کاشت کے خلاف کارروائی، 40 ایکڑ سے زائد رقبہ تلف — 'بھنگ کے خاتمے کی مہم 2025' کے تحت آپریشن" [Action against illegal drug cultivation in Qila Abdullah: more than 40 acres destroyed in an operation under the 'Bhang Elimination Campaign 2025']. Daily Askar (in اردو). 1 November 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
اس آپریشن میں تقریباً 40 ایکڑ رقبے پر مشتمل چرس، بھنگ اور افیون کی فصلیں موقع پر تلف کی گئیں۔
[In this operation charas, bhang and opium crops on about 40 acres were destroyed on the spot.] - ↑ "بلوچستان، افیون، بھنگ کی 2 ہزار ایکڑ فصل تلف" [Balochistan: opium and bhang crop on 2,000 acres destroyed]. Daily Jang (in اردو). 15 November 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
ڈپٹی کمشنر منور حسین مگسی کے مطابق کارروائی میں افیون اور بھنگ کی 2 ہزار ایکڑ فصل تلف کی گئی ہے۔
[According to Deputy Commissioner Munawar Hussain Magsi, opium and bhang crop on 2,000 acres has been destroyed in the operation.] - ↑ "بلوچستان میں بھنگ کی غیر قانونی کاشت کے خاتمے کے لیے کارروائیوں کا شیڈول جاری" [Schedule of operations issued to end illegal bhang cultivation in Balochistan]. Daily Askar (in اردو). 19 October 2026. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
دوبندی کے مختلف علاقوں میں 15 سے 22 اکتوبر جبکہ گلستان اور قلعہ عبداللہ میں 21 اکتوبر سے یکم نومبر 2026 تک مہم جاری رہے گی۔
[The campaign will run from 15 to 22 October in various areas of Dobandi, and from 21 October to 1 November 2026 in Gulistan and Qila Abdullah.] - ↑ "بلوچستان میں منشیات کے خاتمے اور بھنگ کی کاشت کے خلاف کارروائی" [Action to end drugs and bhang cultivation in Balochistan]. UrduPoint (in اردو). Associated Press of Pakistan. 20 October 2026. Retrieved 22 October 2026.
ضلع قلعہ عبداللہ کے علاقے دوبندی میں گزشتہ تین روز سے مختلف مقامات پر کارروائیاں اور چھاپے جاری ہیں۔
[Operations and raids have been under way at various places in the Dobandi area of Qila Abdullah District for the past three days.]