NANGARHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan troops destroyed two heroin factories in Nangarhar Province, Khaama Press reported Monday (March 6).
The factories were situated in Khogyani District, with the operation taking up Sunday (March 5) night and Monday morning.
The forces launched the operation after a reported 43% increase in opium cultivation nationwide in 2016, compared to 2015.
In 2016, farmers cultivated about 201,000 acres with opium in Afghanistan, according to a survey conducted by the UN and the Afghan government.
Production of heroin in Afghanistan will not get eliminated. Production of heroin in Afghanistan will never stop as long as there is a demand from foreign customers. These heroin production factories do not belong to poor people, but all these factories belong to the people who were either ministers or governors in the government of the Republic of Afghanistan. Heroin was produced in these factories with support from the top leaders of the republican government. The majority of Afghan capitalists got rich from these sources. A large number of capitalists appointed provincial security commanders by giving money to high officials to ensure that their heroin production factories were safe. Police of all countries of the world could not stop smoking heroin in their countries. This is despite the fact that the police of foreign countries have all kinds of means, but the current government of Afghanistan was able to reduce heroin to zero all over Afghanistan by using very few means. If foreign countries reduce smoking of heroin in their own countries, poppy crops' cultivation and heroin production will end in Afghanistan.
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