By Prensa Latina
New Delhi : The cultivation and traffic in opium have increased in Afghanistan since the US invasion of that Asian territory with NATO’s help, statistics revealed on Wednesday.
Afghanistan supplies 93 percent of all the illegal opium traffic in the world drug market, reported the International Board of Drug Control in a report published today in New Delhi.
The board informed that 476,913 acres in Afghan territory are devoted to opium crops, the Indo-Asian News Service reported.
What is even more alarming is that great amounts of acetic anhydride, the main chemical constituent for heroin, are being smuggled into Afghanistan from the Middle East, the board alerted.
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