The Ministry of Interior Affairs of the IEA on Wednesday said the US Inspector General for the Reconstruction of Afghanistan’s (SIGAR) report on continued opium trade in Afghanistan was “baseless”.
Abdul Matin Qane, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said in a statement that the opium problem in the country has been eradicated and that addicts have been rounded up and placed in rehabilitation facilities.
One of the IEA’s priorities since its takeover three years ago has been to eradicate the cultivation, production, sale and use of opium and other drugs in the country.
Qane said the IEA has carried out a serious fight against drugs.
According to him, following the decree by the IEA’s supreme leader to eradicate drugs in the country, the interior ministry made it one of its priorities.
He said no exception will be made against cultivation, trafficking, dealing, production, possession or use of narcotics in Afghanistan.
The ministry also added that the Islamic Emirate alone, and with limited resources, has been able to eradicate the problem of drugs in Afghanistan.
The ministry stressed that the IEA will not allow Afghanistan to become the center of drug trade and trafficking that it was in the past.
