KABUL (Pajhwok): Deputy prime minister Abdul Salam Hanafi on Thursday said that around five million Afghans, including a million women and children, were addicted to drugs in the country.
A statement from the Presidential Palace posted on its Twitter page said that Deputy Prime Minister MulaviAbdul Salam Hanafi met with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) deputy country director, Middellan Seidler, on Wednesday.
Hanafi said during the meeting that five million Afghans were addicted to drugs, one million of whom were women and children.
“If the international community helps the country's farmers with alternative livelihoods, they will stop cultivating narcotics . . .
