Taliban Interior Ministry: Countries’ Concerns About the Rise of Narcotics from Afghanistan are ‘Unfounded’
Bayan News – Abdul Matin Qani, spokesman for the Taliban Interior Ministry, has described the countries’ concerns about the expansion and proliferation of the drug trade from Afghanistan as ‘unfounded’.
This Taliban Interior Ministry official said in a statement released on Wednesday (August 7) on the X platform that the Taliban forces’ serious and decisive fight against the cultivation and trafficking of narcotics is considered one of the most important achievements of the last three years.
He made these statements in response to the recent report of the US Special Inspector General for the Reconstruction of Afghanistan (SIGAR). SIGAR had said that despite the Taliban leader’s order to ban the cultivation and trafficking of narcotics, no action has been taken regarding the stockpiles of narcotics.
The spokesman for the Taliban Interior Ministry stressed that after the order of Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Interior Ministry has carried out a serious fight against drugs and there are no exceptions in this field.
However, the SIGAR office, citing a United Nations survey, said that the price of opium has almost doubled since the Taliban’s ban order, from $417 per kilogram in August 2023 to $802 per kilogram in December of the same year.
