KABUL (Pajhwok): The cultivation of the outlawed poppy crop would be brought down to zero during the current year in eastern Laghman province, the governor promised on Friday.
Abdul Jabbar Naeemi told local elders, religious scholars and peace committee head: “We will try to decrease the cultivation of poppies to zero with support from you and young people to win Laghman one million dollars in assistance.”
He said the Ministry of Counter-Narcotics provided one million dollars in development assistance to a poppy-free province, where . . .
