KABUL, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police have wiped out 170 acres of poppy farms in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province, the provincial police office said in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the statement, law enforcement regarding these illicit crops was conducted on the outskirts of the Tala-o-Barfak and Pul-e-Hesar districts of the province.
In the drive against illicit drugs, police have discovered and set on fire more than half a ton of illegal drugs in southern Kandahar province on Sunday.
The Afghan interim government banned poppy cultivation, its processing into drugs, and drug trafficking to eliminate the menace of drugs from the once poppy-growing country. ■
