KABUL, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police have wiped out 157 acres of poppy farms in north Afghanistan's Badakhshan province in the past two days, the provincial police office said in a statement late Sunday.
According to the statement, law enforcement regarding these illicit crops was conducted on the outskirts of the Argo district of the province.
In the drive against illicit drugs, police have smashed several clandestine drug processing labs and discovered over 3,000 kg of illegal drugs used in manufacturing heroin in western Ghor province, the office of the Deputy Minister of Interior for Counter-Narcotics said on Sunday.
The Afghan interim government banned poppy cultivation, its processing into drugs, and drug trafficking to eliminate the menace of drugs from the once poppy-growing country. ■
