KABUL. Speaking at a joint news conference with UNODC executive director, Yury Fedotov, the counternarcotics minister Zarar Ahmad Muqbil Osmani called the fight against drugs as one of the difficult jobs the Afghan government was dealing with. "Without cooperation of…
ASADABAD (PAN): A poppy eradication campaign was launched on Sunday in eastern Kunar province, where cultivation of the illicit crop increased by 50 percent in 10 districts, officials said. The campaign supervisor, Idrees Sapi, told Pajhwok Afghan News that nearly…
HERAT CITY (PAN. Addressing a news conference in western Herat province, Zarar Ahmad Muqbil, asked the international community to accept "its responsibility" in the war against drug smuggling. He said: "If Afghanistan is the producer of drugs, the users are…
KABUL): Like other crops, poppy production is expected to increase next year due to recent snowfall and rains across the country, officials said on Monday. The meteorological department says the recent snowfall in central and northern provinces had been unprecedented…
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FARAH CITY (PAN): Counternarcotics police in southwestern province of Farah on Monday arrested 21 growers on charges of cultivating poppies, officials said. However, farmers and local officials said the main cause behind the increase in poppy cultivation in Farah was…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): As many as 2,000 poppy farmers were released from a jail in southern Helmand province after they promised not to grow the illicit crop, officials said on Tuesday. The growers had been arrested over the past three months…
GARDEZ/ LASHKARGAH (PAN): Thousands of kilograms of drugs were seized during operations in Paktia and Helmand provinces, officials said on Saturday. Sixty-four bags of hashish, weighing 4,500 kilograms, were recovered by police in the Ahmadabad districts of Paktia, a statement…
HELMAND: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a member of municipality council in the southern province of Helmand, an official said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday evening in Lashkari Bazaar area of the capital city, the governor's spokesman, Daud…
JALALABAD (PAN): As many as 140 people have been arrested on the charge of cultivating the banned poppy crop over the past 20 days in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Tuesday. The arrests were made in Sherzad, Achin,…
KANDAHAR (PAN): Security forces eliminated 375 acres of poppy crop in a week in different parts of southern Kandahar province, officials said on Thursday. During the campaign launched 45 days ago, many districts of Kandahar have been cleared of the…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Hundreds of acres of poppies have been eradicated in the Takhta Pul district of southern Kandahar province, the governor's office said on Tuesday. As many as 232 acres of poppies were destroyed during an ongoing campaign by…
