KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) says the illicit poppy crop on nearly 53 acres of land has been eradicated in six provinces and two narcotics labs destroyed.
Abdul Nafe Takor, spokesman for the ministry, tweeted that the security personnel destroyed poppies on 36 acres of land in Sar-i-Pul, seven acres in Herat, five acres in Paktika, three acres in Zabul, one acre in Nimroz and a 318 square metre area in Khost.
He said counter-narcotics police destroyed two drug factories in the Tewri and Lal wa Sarjangal districts of Ghor province and arrested a suspect . . .
