Tolo News: Lawmakers from Badakhshan province said that the commander of an illegal armed group removed security troops responsible for the safety of a lapis lazuli mine out of Kiran-wa-Manjan district of the province in early 2014 and captured the mine. The lawmakers said that the commander and his armed men are illegally extracting the lapis lazuli and then transfer the stones through Anjuman-Parian pass and Panjsher province to Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).