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‘90pc decline in poppy production in Afghanistan’

By Rasheed Khalid in The News, August 17, 2023
Islamabad:Sardar Ahmad Shakeeb, Charge d’Affaires, Afghani­stan, has claimed a substantial 90% reduction in poppy production and work on drug addicts rehabilitation which included a vocational programme for drug addiction recovery.

Sardar Shakeeb was addressing a webinar on “Interim Afghan government in power – two years on” organised here by the Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS). ….

The Afghan envoy said that the economic achievements include combating food insecurity and poverty, reducing inflation from 18% to 9%, and strengthening the Afghan currency against the US dollar…….
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