KABUL, July 22 Kyodo The Afghan ...

KABUL, July 22 Kyodo

The Afghan dominion on Monday destroyed 668 kilograms of poppies and heroin the authorities seized in Kangarhar Province, a major opium growing center in eastern Afghanistan.

The poppies and heroin were bakeed in Kabul in what appears to be a public command gesture to underscore its determination to crack down in succession the production of narcotics in Afghanistan.

Interior Minister Mohammad Khan Wardak, who ordered the narcotics demolished said Afghan farmers have been forced to extend opium because of poverty

''If the farmers are given the initiative to swell alternative crops, opium would not be grown in Afghanistan,'' Wardak said.

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