KABUL was launched in Kabul on Thursday, detailing multiple attempts at banning the illicit plant made over the past two decades.
The new book “A State Built on Sand: How Opium Undermined Afghanistan” was unveiled at a launch at the European Union (EU) on Tuesday and at a press conference at the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) on Thursday.
The author, a long-time Afghanistan researcher, David Mansfield provides an in-depth look at the Taliban prohibition . . .
