Afghans Committed to Drug War But Against Spraying
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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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Separatist rebels in India's northeast vowed to execute drug traffickers in the region which is home to rampant heroin use and fast-spreading AIDS.
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The Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has said the country&#39;s rampant drugs trade is a national disgrace. He said that if it was not brought under control, it could present a more serious threat than the Russian invasion of Afghanistan 25 years ago.
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Afghan leaders are considering offering amnesty to drug smugglers who get out of the country's booming narcotics industry and invest their profits in national reconstruction, senior officials told The Associated Press.
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Mirwais Yasini, director general of  Afghanistan's counter-narcotics department, tells the story of  how a British general asked him for a list of Afghan commanders  involved in the drug trade.
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Western nations must do more to  crack down on the drug trade and corruption in Afghanistan,  NATO's commander said on Wednesday as the alliance prepared to  assume security duties for the whole country.
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4 November 2004 -- Afghan President-elect Hamid Karzai today pledged to use his five-year term to crack down on commanders and the country&#39;s drug economy.
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November 5, 2004 -- KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday there was no future for the warlords or drug barons who flourished during three decades of conflict in Afghanistan.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces used artillery and air strikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said yesterday.
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Text of report by Afghan state radio on 11 December  Afghan deputy minister for counternarcotics yesterday announced his disagreement with the idea of spraying the poppy plant fields with herbicide.
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Afghans significantly increased their poppy crop in the past year, fueling a narcotics trade that endangers U.S.-led efforts to stabilize the country, officials said Thursday.
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KABUL -- Four years after NATO began an expanded mission in Afghanistan, members of the 26-nation alliance are divided over anti-drug and reconstruction policies, rising civilian casualties and what some say is heavy-handed U.S. leadership, according to interviews with military officials and dipl...
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- New Afghan President Hamid Karzai is preparing to meet tribal leaders in a bid to step up the fight against the country&#39;s drug trade.
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NATO forces have killed more than 1,000 Taliban fighters in an offensive in southern Afghanistan, but military efforts to pacify the country are being undercut by a burgeoning drug trade, NATO's supreme commander said.
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Quick action is needed to fight Afghanistan's growing drug addiction problem to head off an HIV/AIDS crisis in the shattered country, leading health agencies said on Thursday.
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Afghanistan's Helmand province, heartland of Taliban guerrillas fighting NATO forces, is about to become the world's largest drug supplier, the United Nations said on Tuesday.