PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): The Azra district of central Logar province has become a major hub of hashish crop cultivation and drug smuggling, local officials say.
The district’s chief, Hamidullah Hamid, told Pajhwok Afghan News that most residents of the town used their land to cultivate hashish and poppy crops.
He said by cultivating poppy and smuggling drugs, the residents resolved their economic problems.
“90 percent of the land in Azra district is used to grow hashish crop and the growers by selling the yield earn millions of afghanis each year and . . .
