Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer, after the Taliban-controlled province of Helmand. For a brief period after a Taliban ban on poppies in 2000 ...
A farmer in the southern province of Helmand, where most of the opium was produced until the ban, told Bjelica and her colleagues that he had never earned as much from opium or lived as well as ...
Opium is now being produced in the country's ... The only exception was the Helmand province which saw an increase of more ...
Kate Clark reports from Helmand where the Taleban insurgency is at its most fierce. After last year's record opium crop in Afghanistan, counter narcotics is a top priority for Britain, and the ...