PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): At least 50,000 individuals, mostly young, are addicted to drugs in northern Baghlan province and many of them are believed to be involved in drug peddling.
With unemployment blamed for their increasing number, a majority of the addicted persons are youth, who had returned from Iran. Some of them call for alms from people to find money for purchasing drugs.
The coffee orchard area in Pul-i-Khumri, the provincial capital, was earlier a public park, but now around 200 drug addicts have occupied the place and are living there . . .
