ISTANBUL -- The narcotics trade in southwest Asia is expanding as opium cultivation spreads from Afghanistan to neighboring countries, while large-scale trafficking of opiates and methamphetamine in the region continues.
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Opium cultivation booms in Pakistan, Iran as Taliban bars Afghans
Banned poppy farming in Afghanistan remains a small fraction of 2022 level
Afghan farmer in a Jalalabad province poppy field in 2014 when no drug bans were in place. © Reuters
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