Police in Dushanbe burned 600 kilograms of heroin on 8 June. Faizullo Gadoev, head of the Tajik Interior Ministry\'s Drug Trafficking Department, told the news agency that the drugs were confiscated in the course of 2003-04. Senior prosecutor Rajab Tagaev told Asia Plus-Blitz that this is the third such drug burning in 2004, adding that 1,250 kilograms of narcotics have been confiscated in Tajikistan since the beginning of the year. Tagaev noted that while overall drug busts are down somewhat, the amount of heroin confiscated is on the rise. \"If 6,724 kilograms of heroin were confiscated in 2000, by 2003 the amount was 9,408 kilograms,\" he said. (Asia Pluz-Blitz)