Afghan forces launch campaign against poppy fields in Herat province

STORY: Afghan forces launch campaign against poppy fields in Herat province DATELINE: April 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:55 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the poppy fields in Herat province 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): MAWLAWI HAYATULLAH ROHANI, Provincial head of Counter-Narcotics 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): SHAHRAM KASHAWARZ, Local farmer STORYLINE: Afghan security forces kicked off an anti-poppy farm campaign in the western Herat province, provincial head of Counter-Narcotics Mawlawi Hayatullah Rohani said Wednesday. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): MAWLAWI HAYATULLAH ROHANI, Provincial head of Counter-Narcotics "We have launched a fight against illicit drugs and poppy fields and have destroyed 241 acres of poppy farms over the past 25 days, and just on Tuesday we smashed three acres of poppy fields in Enjil district." The campaign to eradicate poppy farms would cover all districts in Herat province, the official said. SOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): SHAHRAM KASHAWARZ, Local farmer "Poppy cultivation is forbidde

350 acres of hashish land destroyed in W. Afghanistan

STORY: 350 acres of hashish land destroyed in W. Afghanistan DATELINE: Sept. 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of counter-narcotics police destroying the hashish crops in Herat province STORYLINE: Afghan security forces have destroyed 350 acres of hashish farms over the past two months in western Herat province, head of the counter-narcotics force in the province Mawlawi Hayatullah Rohani said Monday. The operations have covered Enjil, Gazara, Shindand, Adraskan, Farsi, Obe and Zawal districts, the official said, adding that his administration would continue to fight poppy cultivation, hashish and all kinds of illegal crops used in manufacturing illicit drugs in the province. The counter-narcotics police have destroyed more than 5,000 acres of poppy and hashish fields across Herat province over the past five months, according to the official. Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban-run administration, in a decree issued in April banne