The Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesman Abdul Matin Qane says the processing and smuggling of narcotics in Afghanistan has “significantly” decreased, and that the police forces...
Many farmers in Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, were hit hard financially by the ban and have not been able to reap...
Police also arrested 281 people in connection with the possession and sale of drugs in this time
Farmers have lost an estimated $1.3 billion annually, or eight percent of GDP in 2023.
Qane said that the opium problem in the country has been eradicated and that addicts have been rounded up and placed in rehabilitation facilities.
The ban on opium cultivation precipitated a staggering $1.3 billion loss in farmers’ incomes, equivalent to approximately 8 percent of the country’s GDP, the World Bank...
A Spanish newspaper has reported that the drastic drop in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has opened a gap for fentanyl in Europe. A report from the...
Eskandar Momeni, Secretary General of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters, claimed on Monday that there has been no change in the production of narcotics in Afghanistan. “Not...
Myanmar has become the world’s largest source of opium, thanks to domestic instability and a decline in cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations said in a...
Reports that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) have implemented policies to significantly decrease opium poppy production this year are credible and important, US special envoy...
Cultivation of saffron as an alternative to opium has yielded positive results in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, as officials say every acre of land has produced...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has asked clerics to spread awareness about the ban on the cultivation of poppies and drug trade. The Interior Ministry...
Police Chief of Kerman province, in Iran, General Abdolreza Nazeri said on Sunday that almost one ton of illegal drugs had been seized in a single...
The White House in a statement, issued on February 7, 2020, released the results of the annual estimate of the US Government assessing the ‘poppy cultivation’...
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