With Afghanistan's strict ban on opium cultivation under the Taliban, the regional dynamics of poppy production have shifted. Farmers across the Baloch and Pashtun belt of Pakistan - facing poverty ...

Speaker of the Balochistan Assembly, Captain (retd) Abdul Khaliq Achakzai, took serious notice of the matter and issued a ...

QUETTA: Lawmakers from both the treasury and opposition benches in the Balochistan Assembly expressed grave concerns on ...

Afghan counter-narcotics police have discovered 57 kg of opium and arrested a suspected drug smuggler in Badakhshan province, ...

Workers collect poppy tears, or raw opium, at a plantation of poppies in Zhari district in Kandahar, Afghanistan, March 28, 2022. JAVED TANVEER/AFP/Getty ...

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan jumped 32% during 2022 despite the ruling Taliban regime's ban on narcotics, according to an annual report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Afghan farmers have lost income of more than $1 billion from opium sales after the Taliban outlawed poppy cultivation, according to a report from the U.N. drugs agency published Sunday ...

Nearly 10 pounds of opium poppy pods bound for Dover were intercepted in Wilmington last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The shipment, which came into the Port of Wilmington from ...

They found 1 opium poppy field. Then 7 more. Now it's the largest bust in California history By Gabby Ferreira Updated May 31, 2018 11:22 AM ...