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Afghan police take a break next to a poppy field in Badakhshan Province in the northern part of the country. In 2010, writer Robert Draper and photographer David Guttenfelder traveled there to ...

KABUL, July 6, (Xinhua): Police have discovered and seized 1,500 kg of illegal drug opium poppy type in northern Afghanistan's Takhar province, Provincial Police Spokesman Nizamudin Omir said Sunday.

Yama Bariz and Mamoon Durrani from the BBC's Afghan service discuss the effectiveness of the Taliban's poppy eradication campaign and explain how the trade is moving to Pakistan. Show more ...

The world has a shared interest in helping Afghan farmers move on from poppy. But time and again, it has abandoned them and the young Afghans killed by the poisonous harvest to their fate.

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, and the ...