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Taliban bans drug cultivation, including lucrative opium

Summary by Ground News

Afghanistan is the world's biggest producer of poppies, the source of sap that is refined into heroin. Production was banned in 2000, just before the group was overthrown by US-led forces in the wake of the September 11 attacks. It is not the first time the fundamentalist group has vowed to outlaw the trade.

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Deutsche Welle

Afghanistan: Taliban bans opium poppy cultivation, drug trade | DW | 04.04.2022

The Taliban are taking steps to halt Afghanistan's opium trade even as the country's economy crumbles. It is unclear how the Taliban government plans to replace this illicit source of income for millions of farmers.

3 years ago·Bonn, Germany

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NBC News

Taliban ban poppy cultivation in Afghanistan in drug crackdown

Drug control has been one of the international community’s major demands of the Islamist group, which regained power in August and is trying to wind back sanctions.

3 years ago·United States

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Dawn

Taliban clamp down on drugs, announce ban on poppy harvestw

Crops to be burned, farmers jailed in case of defiance of order.

3 years ago·Pakistan

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Sydney Morning Herald

Taliban gives up on opium revenue, announces ban on poppy harvest

Afghanistan produces about 5.5 tonnes of opium, which the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says could potentially yield 290 tonnes of pure heroin.

3 years ago·Sydney, Australia

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People's Daily

Taliban supreme leader bans poppy cultivation in Afghanistan - People's Daily Online

Chief spokesman of Afghanistan's caretaker government Zabihullah Mujahid speaks at a press conf

3 years ago·China

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The Hill

Taliban announces official ban on poppy cultivation

The Taliban on Sunday announced a ban on cultivating poppy flowers, which are used to make heroine, in a move seen as courting global approval while also putting farmers’ livelihoods at risk.…

3 years ago·Washington, United States

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