As Secretary of State John Kerry negotiates with NATO and foreign ministers in hopes of persuading Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to let international troops remain in the war-torn country beyond 2014, is the U.S. also concerned with Afghanistan’s booming opium trade? Despite years of U.S. and United Nations’ intervention, Afghanistan’s
Booming Opium Trade Props Up, Plagues Afghanistan
The illicit opium trade has propped up the nation’s fragile economy for years, but it comes with a heavy price in the form of conflict and drug addiction.