JNN 05 Aug 2011 Quetta : Afghanistan, as of March 2010, is the largest illicit opium producer of the world, ahead of Burma, and Pakistan has a clinical role to play in this statistic. Continue reading
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Lucrative Poppy crop being cultivated in UK , but no hue & Cry
JNN 27 July 2011 : The British and the US militaries are destroying the Afghans’ main source of income, poppy cultivation, while the UK farmers have turned to harvesting the new lucrative crop. Continue reading Poppy Crop – A Taliban Revenue Earner
JNN 28 April 2011 KABUL — Nearly a decade into the war in Afghanistan, opium poppies are still the major crop for many farmers and a big source of income for the Taliban despite expensive efforts to stamp out cultivation. Continue reading
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