RASC: During the previous government, Bamyan province was considered among the provinces in Afghanistan where the cultivation and production of narcotics was zero; but after the domination of the Taliban group, Bamyan province has also been added to the number of narcotics producing provinces.
According to the announcement of the police command of Bamyan province, in the first four months of 1402, more than 20 acres of opium fields were destroyed in this province. In this announcement, it is stated that these farms were in the districts of Kahmard, Saighan and Shibar, where most of the local officials of the Taliban group are present in these districts.
The Taliban police command for Bamyan province has also said that they have seized 20,944 kilograms of yam plant, 920 kilograms of caustic, 5,650 kilograms of opium, 187 grams of heroin, 153 grams of methamphetamine, 6,472 kilograms of marijuana last year.
A source from the police command of the Taliban group in this province, who did not want to be named, said: “After the Islamic Emirate [Taliban group] got the power, at least 10 narcotic factories have been activated in Yakawlang district, Shahidan village and the center of Bamyan. Who produced narcotics from the Oman or Yame plant, the workers of this factory were Pashtuns from Zabul province and they had told the local people that they were producing soap in the factory.”
According to the source of the workers of this factory, after being arrested, they were released without any noise by the governor of the Taliban group for Bamyan, Abdullah Sarhadi, from the police command of this group.
This source claims that Sarhadi is involved in the production and trafficking of narcotics in this province.
Before this, some residents of Waras district of Bamyan province had also informed about the secret transfer of drug addicts from the Pole Sokhta of Kabul city and some neighboring provinces of Bamyan to this city.
