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Afghanistan has become the World's Leading Opium Producer.(QuickQuotes)(Brief Article)
"The threat is definitely there that the country will become a narco-state."
When a UN report claimed that 87 percent of the world's opium comes from Afghanistan and that income from the drug trade was the ...
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