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Taliban annually earn $200m from drug trade: Nicholson

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KABUL’s largest opium producing region, officials said on Monday.

The first joint airstrikes on what officials said Taliban’s financing sources were carried out last night in northern parts of Helmand.

NATO, Gen. John Nicholson told a press conference in Kabul the insurgents earned a huge income from drug trade and funded the insurgency.

Flanked by Afghan Army Lieutenant General Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, the US general said aircraft targeted drugs processing labs of Taliban and . . .

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