Afghan farmers reap lethal crop
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The eastern Nangarhar province accounts for 80% of opium poppy production in Afghanistan. In 1995, the province produced about 1,300 tonnes of dried opium, and there are now well-guarded laboratories just inside Afghanistan, where hundreds of kilogrammes of heroin are processed daily. Although the local authorities in Jalabad say that they have wiped out 30,000 ha of hashish and opium fields since 1994, the effect is minimal. The United Nations is backing a campaign by the Drug Control and Development Unit, Jalabadad, to cut production.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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Velayati offers no word of hope for Rushdie
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The 'fatwa' imposed on writer Salman Rushdie will not be lifted, although no direct attempts are being made to kill him, according to Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati. The Iranian government cannot prevent people from offering rewards for the murder of Rushdie, as people are free to express their own views, just as they are in other countries. Velayati refuses to go into detail about whether foreign relations can be conducted properly while the fatwa is still in force.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
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In the end there is still the word
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Farid Anwari states that he and his father opened a book shop in Peshawar, Pakistan, partly to provide a service for Afghan intellectuals locally and in other countries. He indicates that some of his stock has come from professors and other specialists in Kabul, Afghanistan, who need to sell their books in order to raise money.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2001
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