ASADBAD (Pajhwok): A poppy eradication campaign has been launched to destroy the illicit plant on a 400 hectors of land in eastern Kunar province, local officials said on Wednesday.
Kunar counternarcotics department official Mohammad Arif Safi told Pajhwok Afghan News the campaign was launched in cooperation with security forces.
He said this year’s plan was destroy the poppy crop on 400 hectors of land in Kunar province.
Kunar police chief Brig. Gen. Juma Gul Himmat said police were cooperating with the campaigners in compliance with directives from the Presidential Palace and the . . .
