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Despite the Taliban’s pledge to eradicate opium, the poppy trade still flourishes in Afghanistan
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The Taliban have always had a complicated relationship with the opium trade. As a narcotic, opium is haram, or forbidden under Islamic law. But at the same time opium production has tended to increase in areas they have…