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There is a sharp decrease in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, according to the latest report by UN.
Mohammad Asif was detained in Dubai for possessing opium this year, a Pakistan Cricket Board committee confirms.
Afghan opium production will fall by almost a third this year, a US report says, but UN figures suggest a much smaller drop.
Nato allows its troops to attack opium factories for the first time in Afghanistan to help stem the flow of funds to the Taleban.
Nato's top operations commander calls for more aggressive tactics against the opium trade in Afghanistan.
The area of poppy production in Afghanistan has reduced this year compared with 2007, a UN report says.
A former heroin addict is helping opium farmers in Afghanistan switch from growing poppies to pomegranates.
An ex-US narcotics official accuses President Hamid Karzai of obstructing efforts to tackle the Afghan drugs trade.
Amarnath Tewary on the world's largest opium factory in India, which is back in the limelight because of an acclaimed novel.
A surge in opium and coca cultivation in rebel-held areas threatens to undermine progress on drug control, the UN says.
Taleban insurgents in Afghanistan took more than $100m from the opium trade in 2007, a top UN official tells the BBC.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Kabul reports on the growing problem of drug addiction in Afghanistan.
The BBC's Soutik Biswas talks to novelist Amitav Ghosh on the colonial opium trade out of India.
Legalising production of opium in Afghanistan for medical use would fuel the drugs industry, a UK minister says.
The Afghan government must do more to combat opium poppy production, says US government report.
The amount of opium poppy cultivated in Afghanistan's volatile southern provinces will increase in 2008, the UN says.
A new report on Afghanistan's drugs trade urges investment to provide alternative livelihoods for farmers.
A former US ambassador to the UN says President Bush's moves to eradicate Afghanistan's opium poppy fields have failed.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Afghanistan discovers that drugs production goes on because farmers have no other source of income.
It is hard to see how 2008 will bring an end to the complex issues at the root of the conflict in Afghanistan, writes David Loyn.
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