RASC News Agency: According to the Taliban group’s Ministry of Interior, approximately 4,000 people have been detained on drug trafficking-related charges over the past six months,
According to Abdul Haq Akhund Hamkar, the Taliban’s deputy for counter-narcotics, approximately 4,000 persons were detained on suspicion of trafficking drugs in the first half of 1402, he stated.
He adds that during this period, more than 600 large and small drug factories have been destroyed throughout the country.
The information of the anti-narcotics department of this ministry indicates that in the past year, about 13 thousand hectares of land have been cleared of poppy cultivation.
The Ministry of Interior of the Taliban group presents this statistic while the neighboring countries and the region have repeatedly expressed concern about the cultivation, smuggling and sale of drugs from Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the United Nations recently said in a report that Afghanistan is one of the largest producers of methamphetamine-type drugs in the world.
However, a number of sources say that the claim of the Taliban group about the destruction of drug plantations is not true and they first collect the drug products and then make them public in order to attract the attention of the people.
According to some reports, a number of Taliban members use drug production and trafficking as their most important source of income.
Taliban biggest income during their 20 years’ war against the republic regime was drug cultivation and smuggling to neighboring countries.
