Monday, September 22, 2003
BBC NEWS | Business | Opium crop clouds Afghan recovery: "Opium growing is coming to dominate Afghanistan's economy, providing roughly half the war-shattered country's wealth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.
'A dangerous potential exists for Afghanistan to progressively slide into a 'narco-state' where all legitimate institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of (drug) traffickers,' the IMF said.
Afghanistan now provides about 75% of the world's opium crop, it added, which is worth around $20bn "
'A dangerous potential exists for Afghanistan to progressively slide into a 'narco-state' where all legitimate institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of (drug) traffickers,' the IMF said.
Afghanistan now provides about 75% of the world's opium crop, it added, which is worth around $20bn "
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