KABUL, March 24 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan caretaker government has demolished 1,250 drug processing laboratories across the country since assuming power in August 2021, Afghanistan's TV channel TOLOnews has reported.
"About 1,250 alcohol and drug processing factories in various provinces of the country have been destroyed, and the serious fight against the cultivation, trafficking, and trade of drugs in the country continues," the report quoted Haseebullah Ahmadi, head of the counter-narcotics office of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, as saying on Saturday.
Drug trafficking, cultivation and trade in Afghanistan have nearly reached zero, said Ahmadi, adding that whoever still engages in the field will be referred to judicial organs.
The Afghan caretaker government banned the cultivation of opium poppy and the trade of opium in Afghanistan in April 2022. ■
