Afghanistan will draw up 5-year plan to battle drugs 16.08.2005 KABUL: Afghanistan’s government is drawing up a five-year plan to battle the country’s burgeoning drugs trade, officials said Sunday. “The government is currently working on a five-year drug elimination strategy,” Counter-Narcotics Minister Habibubllah Qaderi told reporters. Afghanistan currently produces 90 percent of the world’s opium and the US and UN have warned that the country is on the brink of becoming a narco-state. Speaking after a seminar at which provincial officials from northern Afghanistan met to discuss drug problems, Qaderi said the strategy includes eradicating poppy fields, fighting drug traffickers and providing alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers. General Mohammad Daud, deputy interior minister for counter-narcotics, also said the fight against illegal drugs was a long-term problem. << | >> |
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