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A former Afghanistan Border Force general and First Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly’s House of the People was on Thursday extradited to the USA to face drug charges after a Nairobi court cleared the way for the process.
Abdul Zahir Qadeer, alias Haji Abdul Zahir, will face charges relating to a conspiracy to allegedly import narcotics and firearms.
Zahir was handed over to the officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) terminal two by Kenya’s Anti-Narcotics Unit (ANU) of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
The suspect was arrested by ANU detectives after the US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a warrant of arrest on March 25, 2025, which saw the placing of an INTERPOL Red Notice.
