"The attempt to smuggle 5,210 kg of precious stones on the highway linking Kabul to the border town of Torkham was foiled," the ministry said.
Torkham is a border town that connects Afghanistan's Jalalabad city with Pakistan's Peshawar, Xinhua news agency reported.
The statement, however, did not identify the kind of gemstones and their prices.
Precious and semi-precious stones such as emerald, ruby and lapis lazuli are routinely smuggled out of Afghanistan.
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