By bnm Tehran bureau Opium prices are soaring in Afghanistan following the Taliban's drug cultivation ban, threatening regional stability, new data from the UN indicated on March 12. The Taliban swept ...

Pakistan’s prime minister traveled to restive southwestern Balochistan province Thursday to meet survivors of a train attack and the commandos who rescued over 300 ...

Opium prices in Afghanistan have skyrocketed, nearing record highs and primarily benefiting large traffickers and organised ...

The continued rise in drug production and trafficking from Afghanistan requires immediate and coordinated action. The UNODC meeting represents a critical opportunity for international stakeholders to ...

Prices for opium in Afghanistan have increased tenfold since the de facto authorities imposed a drug ban in 2022 following ...

Prices for opium in Afghanistan have increased tenfold since the de facto authorities imposed a drug ban in 2022 following ...

The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per kilogram in 2024, a tenfold increase compared to two years prior, ...

Afghanistan’s stockpiles before the drop in opium cultivation may have been worth between US $4.6 to US $5.9 billion, or roughly 23-29 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2023. This ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi, head of Afghanistan’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, has the hard job of raising money in an ...

A bumper crop of opium poppies in Afghanistan ...