Manufacture of drugs stopped in 22 out of 34 provinces of Afghanistan - Ministry of Internal Affairs of Afghanistan
Dushanbe. July 11. Kazakhstan Today - Manufacture of drugs has completely stopped in 22 out of 34 provinces of Afghanistan. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Islamic Republic Afghanistan Zarorahmad Mukbil stated in Dushanbe on Thursday, the agency reports referring to News Agency Asia Plus.
According to the Minister, manufacture of drugs has been significantly reduced in other provinces and there are no crops of opium on the border with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
Meanwhile, according to Agency for control over drugs at the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, for 6 months of 2008 about 3.5 tons of drugs imported from Afghanistan have been withdrawn in Tajikistan. According to the United Nations, in 2007 about 93 % of the market of opium poppy accounts for Afghanistan.
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan Mahmadnazar Salihov informed journalists that the memorandum of cooperation on joint struggle against terrorism, drug trafficking, and transnational criminality was signed by the results of the visit of the law-enforcement departments.
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Afghanistan also informed that the Parliament of Afghanistan has recently approved the plan of withdrawal of antiterrorist coalition ISAF from Kabul.
The reason for this decision became numerous terrorist attacks taking place in the capital of Afghanistan: "the majority of terrorist attacks have been in Kabul and they are directed against coalition forces. Coalition armies will be relocated outside of Kabul since October 2008.
Z. Mukbil commented on the last terrorist attack in Kabul as a result of which more than 40 people died. As he said, there are countries that are interested in prevention from process of stabilization in Afghanistan. "Center of preparation of terrorists who have done last terrorist attacks at the embassy of India in Kabul, is in Pakistan, preparing terrorists in the neighboring countries and not in Afghanistan," the Minister stated.
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