British war on Afghan drugs &#39;complete failure&#39;: vice-president
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Britain&#39;s battle against the drugs trade in southern Afghanistan has been a total failure, the troubled country&#39;s vice-president said Sunday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai accused NATO and US-led troops yesterday of carelessly killing scores of Afghan civilians and warned that the fight against resurgent Taliban militants could fail unless foreign forces show more restraint.
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KABUL In his inaugural address last week, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan laid out his priorities for the next five years. Chief among them was stopping the country&#39;s growing drug trade.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan Vice President Dick Cheney is congratulating US troops in Afghanistan, telling them their hard work has finally given the besieged country hope for its future.
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KABUL: Responding to a UN report warning it risks becoming a narco-state after opium cultivation jumped to record levels, Afghanistan said on Friday the war on drugs was the top priority but opposed aerial spraying of opium fields.
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The lives of British soldiers in Afghanistan are being put at risk because failure to develop a coherent strategy for eradicating the country's opium poppies has led to the Taliban forming an alliance with heroin traders, a highly critical parliamentary report warns today.
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OTTAWA/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan President   Hamid Karzai urged Canada to stay the course in his war-torn   country, where 19 people were killed on Friday by Taliban   forces who have also targeted foreign peacekeepers.
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Afghanistan's police are incapable of carrying out law enforcement, a US government report says.
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Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday the United States cannot successfully fight the war on terrorism "if we try to retreat behind our oceans" and reiterated his criticism that Sen. John Kerry has a "pre-9/11 mind-set."
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KABUL, Afghanistan - In the face of pressure from the American government, the administration of President Hamid Karzai is seeking the formation of an international scientific committee to review the safety of chemical herbicides to combat Afghanistan's opium poppy crop, Afghan and Western officials say.
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Responding to a U.N. report warning it  risks becoming a narco-state after opium cultivation jumped to  record levels, Afghanistan said Friday the war on drugs was the  top priority but opposed aerial spraying of opium fields.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan government on Thursday blamed drug smugglers - not Taliban or al-Qaida fighters - for a bomb attack on interim leader Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running mate, saying the country's landmark el ections are a threat to their business.    The attack Wednesday in the mountainous northeastern poppy-growing region of Badakhshan killed one person and wounded at least five others - including the former governor...
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NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Friday said the Afghan government and international aid agencies needed to do more to stifle the country&#39;s burgeoning illicit heroin exports.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai told British Prime Minister Tony Blair Tuesday he remained fully committed to ridding Afghanistan of the menace of illicit drugs.
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KINSHASA, Aug 19  - Congo must stick to the terms of its fragile peace agreement, one of the country&#39;s vice presidents said on Thursday, as a dissident army officer said the process was failing and threatened to resume fighting.
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A former US ambassador to the UN says President Bush's moves to clear Afghanistan's poppy fields have failed.
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Reuters London Oct 29: UN figures on Afghanistan will show a big rise in drug cultivation and production in the past year, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Jack Straw has said, as he chided international donors for not meeting their pledges.