KABUL (AFP) - Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to increase for a third straight year, a UN report warned on Monday. The Afghanistan Opium Risk Assessment 2013 said the country was moving towards record levels of opium production this year despite eradication efforts by the ...

UNITED NATIONS – Despite eradication efforts, high opium prices led to an increase in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan this year, a joint report released on Tuesday by the govt and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has found.Cultivation was 18 per cent higher this year than ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Coast Guards seized a huge cache of hashish and opium from Panwan area near Jiwani Gwadar, Balochistan on Sunday. The PCG had been tipped off about the bid to smuggle narcotics into the coastline area. Acting on this information, a special PCG team, while carrying out a snap ...

OKARA - Police seized 320-kg of chars and 50-kg of opium recovered from the hidden compartments of a vehicle and also arrested a suspected drug peddler during search on Faisalabad Road here on Sunday. The huge quantity of narcotics was brought from Peshawar and was to be sold in interior Punjab. ...

ISLAMABAD - Capital police have arrested 10 accused and recovered 2-kilogram opium, 23 bottles liquor and 5 pistols 30 bore along with 6 rounds from their possession. According to the details, ASI Liaquat Ali of Kohsar police arrested one accused namely Naseer and recovered 20 bottle liquors from ...

KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistan's troubled fast bowler Mohammad Asif, who has faced multiple doping charges, told prosecutors in Dubai he thought the opium found in his possession was a herbal remedy, a report showed Sunday. Asif, 26, was detained in the Gulf emirate for nearly three weeks in June last ...

NATO agreed Friday to officially take part for the first time in the fight against Afghanistan's opium trade to try to cut off drug funds from Taliban insurgents, an alliance diplomat said. "There is a formal agreement between the NATO nations to fight against drug trafficking," the ...