Acting Counternarcotics Minister Haroon Rashid Sherzad on Sunday said poppy cultivation increased by seven percent in the country this season owing to insecurity. Sherzad, who visited the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province, said their investigations showed…
Poppy crop grown over 1000 hectors of land would be eradicated as part of an ongoing eradication campaign in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Tuesday. Though it remains unknown how many hectors of land is grown…
Counternarcotics directorate said on Tuesday that poppy cultivated on more than 18,000 acres of land in 13 districts of eastern Nangarhar province would be eradicated this week. The exact figures of poppy cultivated on land could not be…
So far about 400 hectares of land have been cleared of the poppy crop as part of an ongoing eradication campaign in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday. The campaign launched a month back in…
Coordination and synchronisation efforts for future security operations came up for discussion at a meeting in the Bagram district of central Parwan province, the US military said on Friday. Bagram district's administrative head Abdul Qadusi, police chief Col.…
Acting Counternarcotics Minister Haroon Rashid Sherzad on Wednesday said the bulk of poppy crop was cultivated in 10 districts of four provinces this season. Sherzad told reporters in Kabul 54 percent of poppy cultivation had been recorded in…
The acting governor of central Uruzgan province on Saturday said a weak anti-poppy campaign had resulted in an increase in poppy cultivation. Speaking to a gathering in Tirinkot, Amanullah Timuri alleged the central government did not encourage farmers…
Officials on Wednesday said they were wrapping up an anti-poppy campaign in southern Helmand province without achieving the target. They said they had been set the target of destroying the illicit crop on 10,000 hectares of land, but…
Nearly 60 acres of land were cleared of poppy crops as a drive against the illicit cultivation has been launched in southern Kandahar on Thursday, an official said. Officials of the anti-narcotics department said the anti-poppy eradication campaign…
The area under poppy cultivation has risen this year in southern Kandahar province, where an anti-poppy drive is being launched shortly, an official said on Sunday. Provincial counternarcotics head Gul Mohammad Shukran told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): District police chiefs received a training on how to combat poppy cultivation in southern Helmand province during a three-day workshop that concluded here on Wednesday. Nawa district police chief, Col. Ahmad Shah, who attended the workshop at the…
KABUL rose by a record 36 percent in 2013, when opium production went up by almost a half since 2012, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey, released today in Kabul by the United Nations Office…
KABUL, calling for more police personnel to intensify the war on drugs. Lt. Gen, Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, the department’s deputy head, was speaking to reporters after torching of 20 tonnes of opium, which had been seized by counternarcotics police. The…
KABUL could not afford to be complacent about poppy cultivation, a research organisation warned on Tuesday, suggesting gains must be carefully measured, policies contextualised and a long-term commitment ensured. Anticipated ramifications of 2014 transition did not include a reduction in…
FIAZABAD (PAN): Poppy crops grown over up to 300 hectares of land have been eradicated as part of an ongoing anti-poppy campaign in northeastern Badakhshan province, where 5,000 hectares of land is cultivated with the illicit plant, an official said…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Residents of Chamtal district in northern Balkh province on Wednesday claimed police had destroyed poppy crops over hundreds of acres, but officials rejected the claim, saying the illicit plant had not been planted in any part of the…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Poppy crops grown over up to 1,627 acres of land were eradicated during an anti-poppy campaign in central Uruzgan province, an official said on Thursday. The campaign that started two weeks ago in Tirinkot was extended to three…
KABUL has been increasing for a third year in a row and headed for a record high. The UNODC Afghanistan Opium Risk Assessment 2013 released on Monday found poppy cultivation between December 2012 and January 2013 is expected to increase…
ADADABAD (PAN): Poppy crops grown over 50 hectares land were destroyed during a newly launched anti-poppy campaign in eastern Kunar province, officials said. The illicit plant has been sowed in Nurgal, Sawkai, Sarkani, Narang, Watapur and Shigal districts, according counternarcotics…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): On the first day of an anti-poppy campaign, 67.5 acres of land was cleared of the illicit crop in the Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Tuesday. The drive would be expanded to…
LASHKARGAH (PAN’s largest opium-producing region, an official said on Monday. Up to 1,000 acres of land has been cleared of the illicit crop during the drive in the Nawabad, Marja and Lashkargah, the deputy provincial police chief told Pajhwok Afghan…
