Tolo News: Local officials in Nangarhar said Wednesday that most farmers in the eastern province have resumed poppy cultivation in their areas, accusing government of focusing on security issues rather than assisting them in agriculture. “Poppies have been cultivated in 12 districts in Nangarhar over the past year. We are trying to stop the trend with
Press TV (Published on Feb 1, 2016): Drug addiction has become a big challenge to Afghanistan, as the number of people taking opiates keeps growing there. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes, around two-point-nine million Afghans are now addicted to opium. Press TV reporter in Kabul, Fayez Khorshid, says the Afghan government
Pepe Escobar via Counter Punch: In the end, everything comes back to Helmand. Why Helmand? My Pashtun interlocutors loosen up and say it with a mouthful: it’s all about the involvement of the CIA in the heroin trade in Afghanistan; “The Americans simply can’t let it go.” Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: The Afghan Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz has narrowly escaped a possible HIV infection after he was attacked with a syringe by a drug addict, officials said Sunday. According to officials, the attack was pre-planned by those who are oppossed to shifting drug addicts from the city to a rehabilitation center. Click here to read more
QALAT, Afghanistan, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — Police in the southern Zabul province with Qalat as its capital 340 km south of Kabul set ablaze nine and half tons of illicit drug including heroin and hashish on Wednesday, provincial police chief Mir Wais Norzai said Thursday. “A total of 9.5 tons illicit drug including heroin, hashish
Tolo News: An additional 350 drug addicts were rounded up from Kabul’s Pul-e-Sokhtar area, with the cooperation of security forces, and moved to a rehabilitation facility center, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said on Sunday in a statement. The drug addicts were transferred by ambulances to the new treatment center on Saturday, read the statement.
Tolo News: The Counter Criminal Narcotics Justice Task Force (CJTF) officials said on Wednesday that the increase in drug production and trafficking in Afghanistan during 2015 is a matter of serious concern for the Afghan government. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: A major campaign has been launched by the government to collect and shift drug addicts from Kabul city and shift them to a former NATO base. The Ministry of Counter-Narcotics of Afghanistan in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health and Ministry of Economy has allocated parts of Camp Phoenix for the treatment of drug
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 22, 2015 More than 600 tons of opium have been seized in a joint operation between law enforcement officials from Russia and Afghanistan. The head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service said the drugs were seized in mid-December in the northern Afghan city of Doshi. Viktor Ivanov told a press