Taliban and opium Mohammed Daud Daud

daud speaking members of isaf in april 2011

the opium trade has been continuing source of financing taliban. taliban insurgents force farmers grow opium poppies fund operations. daud quoted saying, taliban have forged alliance drug smugglers, providing protection drug convoys , mounting attacks keep government away , poppy flourishing. general mohammad daud further quoted in new yorker alliance, saying, there has been coalition between taliban , opium smugglers. year, have set commission tax harvest. in return, said, taliban had offered opium farmers protection government s eradication efforts. switch in strategy has obvious logic: provides opium money taliban sustain , helps win on farming communities. in continued effort curb opium trade in afghanistan mohammed duad reported in june 2008 police in kabul set fire 7.5 tonnes of narcotics. in april 2009, afghan anti-drug officers burned more six-and-a-half tons of seized heroin, opium, hashish , drug-manufacturing chemicals worth £70 million on uk market. if not burn drugs, thousands of others become drug addicts , said daud, deputy minister counter narcotics @ interior ministry. burning amount of opium , narcotics show people committed fight against drugs.