In Helmand, located in southern Afghanistan, the site of hundreds of murders nearly always carried out by the Taliban, one-fifth of the land under cultivation was devoted to opium poppy.

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...

Police in Bamiyan banned the cultivation of poppy, drug processing, and drug trafficking in the province, the statement added. The Afghan caretaker government has vowed to fight the menace of ...