KABUL: Due to the absence of any coherent system in Afghanistan, the country has been a hotbed of drug trafficking and human trafficking, drug trafficking and other illegal crimes are spreading rapidly.
According to the Afghan news agency Tolo News, the counter-narcotics chiefs of Iran and Tajikistan have expressed concern over drug trafficking and cultivation from Afghanistan at a meeting of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Iran and Tajikistan have raised serious questions about drug trafficking in Afghanistan, contradicting the Taliban government’s claims of taking tough measures against drug cultivation and trafficking.
The head of Tajikistan’s drug control agency said that large quantities of drugs are being smuggled from northern Afghanistan to Central Asian countries and the European Union.
Similarly, the Secretary General of Drug Control of Iran also claimed in the meeting that 4450 tons of drugs produced in Afghanistan have been seized in Iran in the last five years.
He further said that many officials had to sacrifice their lives to stop the smuggling of drugs from Afghanistan.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, opium is an important source of billions of dollars of revenue for extremist and criminal groups around the world, while the trafficking of opium and meth produced in Afghanistan accounts for much of the world’s revenue. There are serious threats to the health and well-being of people in the region.
