KABUL was told on Tuesday.
Counternarcotics Minister Salamat Azimi and Deputy Public Health Minister Najia Tariq testified before the Senate after being summoned to provide information to lawmakers about the increasing number of drug addicts and poppy cultivation in the country.
Azimi told the upper house they had collected 1000 addicts in Kabul and 10,000 in other provinces, but many more remained uncollected in Kabul due to a lack of space.
She asked the government . . .
