Afghanistan’s ban on growing heroin ingredient is driving farmers across border, potentially empowering terror groups
Afghanistan’s ban on growing heroin ingredient is driving farmers across border, potentially empowering terror groups
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UN says the area devoted to opium poppies has dropped to a fraction of that cultivated before Taliban’s narcotics ban.
Afghanistan used to produce more than 80% of global opium but a Taliban ban has cut that to a fraction.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) and local authorities have launched a “major operation” in southwestern…
COLUMN. The Taliban has only been able to curb opium production in the country because of the regime's deeply repressive nature.
Myanmar now the world’s main source of illicit opium following decline of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the UN says.
Opium production has dropped sharply in Afghanistan, but trafficking in the region is on the rise, according to a Thursday report…
