Taliban bans drug cultivation, including lucrative opium
Kabul, Afghanistan/Peshawar, PakistanReuters The Taliban announced on Sunday a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest opium producer. “As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, all Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country,” according […]
Essay: In Afghanistan, heroin and human trafficking are the only two sectors of the economy still thriving
UK researchers JONATHAN GOODHAND and JAN KOEHLER look – in an article first published on The Conversation – look at why the trade in people and drugs is growing in importance in Afghanistan…
Profits and poppies: How Afghanistan’s illegal drug trade has been a boon for the Taliban
JONATHAN LANDAY, of Reuters, reports on how the Taliban – and others – have exploited the drug trade in Afghanistan…
STRANGESIGHTS: A POPPY THIEVING PIGEON; A MARATHON EFFORT; AND, A SWEET ENDING FOR THE BERLIN WALL…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
ESSAY: 100 YEARS SINCE THE WORLD WAR I ARMISTICE, REMEMBRANCE DAY REMAINS A POWERFUL REMINDER OF THE COST OF WAR
As the world marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Flinders University’s ROMAIN FATHI, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the history of Armistice Day…