MEHTARLAM: Provincial counter-narcotics personnel of Laghman eradicated 25 acres of poppy lands in Alisheng district of the province, Bakhtar News Agency reported Sunday.
Qari Idris director of the Counter-Narcotics Department of Laghman province told the state-run agency that 25 acres of poppy lands have been destroyed in different areas of Alishang district.
Hundreds of acres of poppy lands in Alishang, Dawlat Shah and Badpash districts have earlier been eradicated, according to the agency.
The related organs of the Islamic Emirate are making effort to continue fighting drugs by eliminating all poppy cultivated lands, part of the government plans to reduce the vicious phenomenon to nil countrywide.
The Kabul Times
Poppy land destroyed in Laghman
