Similarly, police in the western Herat province arrested seven alleged smugglers and seized 4 kg of opium poppy along with a good quantity of objects used in manufacturing heroin from their ...

KABUL, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Poppy cultivation and drug production have been banned in Afghanistan and are now nearly at zero, spokesman of the caretaker government Zabihullah Mujahid said. Mujahid made ...

However, the situation in Afghanistan like war-stricken countries is more horrible as there is no one willing to tackle with this epidemic-like menace. Recently United Nations Office on Drugs and ...

Luckily, we’re not dead yet, but we soon find ourselves inside the lab. It contains a garden of poppy flowers, which the scientists at the factory used for their experiments. This area will ...

The cultivation follows a multi-staged cropping process, with flowers sown until mid-November and harvested between late January ... Despite efforts from the government and international organizations ...

UNODC announced last year that Myanmar had overtaken Afghanistan to become the world ... is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production ...

The Afghan caretaker government, which had banned poppy cultivation, drug processing, and trafficking, has vowed to continue fighting the drug menace until the once-poppy-growing country became ...