Poppies

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

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

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

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.

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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

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

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,

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

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

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

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