FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Jul 14 (NNN-ANA) – Afghan counter-narcotics police, have destroyed poppy on 40,000 acres of land, in northern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, over the past three months, said Shafiqullah Hafizi, director of the counter-narcotics police department in the province.
“The poppy eradication campaign started three months ago, and, so far, we have destroyed 40,000 acres of poppy and the process would continue until the poppy fields are completely demolished in the province,” Hafizi told reporters, last night.
The official said, the anti-poppy campaign would be concluded within a few days.
Police destroyed a drug processing lab and arrested its owner in northern Afghanistan’s Jawzjan province on Wednesday. Authorities also smashed 20 acres of poppy in the eastern Ghazni province last week.– NNN-ANA
