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Nov 5 2007, Pankaj

Yes # Eradication programmes have driven poppy farmers into the arms of the Taliban.
# By allowing pharmaceutical processing at village level, young men can be trained for light industrial work. This is important for the future of Afghanistan.
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Wrong end of the snake or wrong end of the stick? The US (in particular) and the West (in general) has been waging out two most vital wars of the age, the ‘war on...
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Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
We’ll are well aware of the burgeoning opium production and heroin trade in Afghanistan, however, the latest report issued by the UN throws more light on the...
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An Afghan man collects resin from poppies in an opium poppy field in Panjwai district of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Afghanistan supplies some 93 percent of the world’s opium used to make heroin, and the...