Afghanistan&#39;s disturbing poppy explosion
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- In the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, where his $100 million empire is based, inquiries about Haji Bashir Noorzai elicit an anxious frown, a shrug or the vague explanation that he left years ago.
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Afghan poppies should be used to make opium rather than be destroyed, UK politicians say.
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BALKH, Afghanistan  - As Afghanistan struggles to cut its raging opium production, aid workers try to find alternative crops, but for some former poppy farmers the choice was easy -- they planted marijuana instead.
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Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the source of most of the opium and heroin on Europe's streets, was up sharply this year.
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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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KABUL, Oct 16: Seven people, including two US soldiers, died in explosions in Afghanistan on Saturday. Three rockets were also fired in the capital, injuring one woman and damaging an apartment building, in
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A record opium crop in Afghanistan is likely to renewed debate about the United Statesâ troubled $600 million counternarcotics program there.
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AN EXPLOSION ripped through a school in south-eastern Afghanistan, killing nine children and one adult . An Afghan official insisted the blast on Saturday evening in Paktia province was caused by a bomb,but this has not been confirmed by the military.
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The death of the children may well add to the crescendoing anger many Afghans feel about civilian casualties from American and NATO military operations.
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai last night won Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote, but a suicide bombing offered a lethal reminder of the dangers still facing the war-weary nation.
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An explosion outside the main U.S. base in Afghanistan causes casualties during Cheney's visit
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KABUL: Seven people, including two US soldiers, were killed in explosions in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday. Three rockets were also fired in the capital, injuring one woman and damaging an apartment building.
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Afghanistan's poppy crop, which is turned into most of the world's heroin and helps fuel the Taliban insurgency, should be used instead to make pain killers, the European Parliament said on Thursday.
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Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out of control, the annual UN report on illegal drugs warns.
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JALALABAD, November 19 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Three years after the massive US-led invasion, Afghanistan is still facing the threat of being a corrupt ânarco-stateâ after the opium production rose by two thirds this year.
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Afghanistan&#39;s poppy cultivation increased by almost two-thirds this year and accounts for 87% of world supply of raw opium, a UN report said yesterday, warning of the country&#39;s descent into a drugs-based economy.
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Opium cultivation in Afghanistan leapt by two-thirds this year, according to a new UN report that warns the countryâs economy could be forced to rely on poppy growing largely wiped out under the hardline Taliban militia.