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| Mafia, terrorists annually receive $70 billion from narcotics in Afghanistan |
| 2015-06-04 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] Mafia and terrorist groups are annually receiving $70 billion from narcotics in Afghanistan. Zabihullah Daim, an official at the Ministry of Counter Narcotics said that Mafia and terrorist groups receive the illegal money from poppy cultivation, producing and smuggling of narcotics. He said that the investigation conducted by the Ministry of Counter Narcotics shows that nearly $2 billion of this amount is going to Pak Taliban which is one of the causes behind the raise in insurgency both in Afghanistan and Pakistain. A survey conducted jointly by Afghanistan's Ministry of Counter Narcotics and United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) showed that an estimated 224,000 hectares of land was planted with poppies in 2014. United Nations said that Afghanistan was still producing some 90 per cent of world's illicit opiates and that the country is world's third largest opium producer after Myanmar and Laos. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has promised strict actions against poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |