The Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics, responsible for coordinating Afghan Government counter-narcotics activities, has been operational since December 2004.

On 5-6 September 2011, the Ministry for Counter Narcotics hosted the second regional Counter Narcotics Conference in Kabul.

The role of Minister of Counter Narcotics has been described as the world's toughest job.

Colonel General Khodaidad is a former Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan.

The Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics is dealing with this problem.

In 2005, Mr. Yasini was appointed Deputy Minister, Ministry of Counter Narcotics in the Government of Afghanistan.

From 2007-8 she was First Secretary of Counter Narcotics in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Engineer Habibullah Qaderi (born 1961 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan) is a former Minister of Counter Narcotics in Afghanistan, serving between January 2004 and July 2007.

Qaderi was appointed as the head of the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics in January 2004, following the establishment of that Ministry in December 2003.

After the fall of the Taliban regime, he was appointed a Deputy Interior Minister for Counter Narcotics in Afghanistan.