Cannabis on 100 acres cleared in Paktika's Dila district
Counter-narcotics police destroyed cannabis grown on about 100 acres of land in Dila district, Paktika, during a campaign that began about a week earlier. A police spokesman said the clearing was continuing because Dila is a large district.
Counter-narcotics police destroyed cannabis plants grown on about 100 acres of
land in Dila district of southeastern Paktika province, a police spokesman said
on Sunday.[1]Police spokesman Mohammadullah told Pajhwok Afghan News that the
eradication took place during a campaign launched a week earlier in Dila
district.[1]“So far cannabis plant on 100 acres land has been cleared and the
campaign is still ongoing because Dila is a large district,” the spokesman said.[1]
The Ministry of Interior wrote on its Twitter page that cannabis and poppy crops
had been destroyed on more than 100 acres of land in Paktika and Parwan
provinces.[2]The ministry said the operations took place in Dila district of
Paktika and Saidkhel district of Parwan, and that the campaign was still going
on.[2]
The Ministry of Interior also reported that anti-narcotics police had arrested
eight people for selling drugs and alcohol in Kabul, Uruzgan, Khost and Parwan
provinces, a separate matter.[2]The Islamic Emirate has banned the
cultivation, purchase and sale of any kind of drugs in the country, and
violators are dealt with legally.[2]
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Photograph captioned only 'Kesht' on The Kabul Times page about the 100-acre clearing in Dila district; no credit states what it depicts.Photo details
The reported 100 acres (about 40.5 hectares) is an approximate figure given by the police spokesman; no count of plants, weight or value was published.
Sources give no separate start date for the campaign; 9 July 2023 is the day the spokesman gave the figure, and the clearing was said to have begun a week earlier.
The Ministry of Interior's 100-plus acre figure covers cannabis and poppy together in Paktika and Parwan and cannot be split between the two, so only the Paktika cannabis account is used for the figures.
No arrests, charges or court outcome were reported for the Dila clearing; the eight arrests mentioned by the ministry concerned selling drugs and alcohol in Kabul, Uruzgan, Khost and Parwan.
Nothing was published on whether landholders were identified, warned or penalised, or whether the crop was found in fields or in the wild.
The submitted Pajhwok page is partly behind a membership paywall; only the opening of the ministry statement could be read there, and its fuller text was taken from The Kabul Times.
The embedded Kabul Times sentence reads 'Mohammadullah said tha in a tip-off anti-narcotics operations', which is garbled and was not used for any claim.
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