Under the Taliban, poppy cultivation was banned and opium production ... section of the UN Drug Control Programme. Drug workers in Afghanistan have complained of a desperate lack of resources ...

Hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalated ... subsisted on foreign aid and opium poppy cultivation, has contracted significantly since the Taliban takeover in 2021, with widespread ...

“At least $200 million of this opium industry goes into the Taliban’s bank accounts,” Gen John Nicholson, the US commander in Afghanistan in 2017, a year of peak poppy production, said at ...