AFP report, Nov 6, 2023KABUL: Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged 95 per cent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop, according to a UN report published on Sunday.Since returning to power in 2021, Taliban authorities have vowed to end illegal drug production in Afghanistan and in April 2022 banned the cultivation of the poppy plant, from which opium and heroin are made. The report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and…
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By Rasheed Khalid in The News, August 17, 2023Islamabad: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…
report in Khaama Press online, July 15, 2023Poppy cultivation had been eradicated from 40,000 acres of land in the northern province of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, in the past three months. Shafiqullah Hafizi, the director of the counter-narcotics police department in the province of Badakhshan in northern Afghanistan, reported that during the past three months, poppy had been eradicated from 40,000 acres of land. “The poppy eradication campaign started three months ago, and so far, we have…