U.S. Results in Afghanistan - Back to #1 in Heroin Production

In the one-and-a-half years since the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the initiation of rule under the US-supported administration of Hamad Karzai, the country has once again become the center of the world's poppy cultivation and the focus of associated mafias who have reopened smuggling routes closed by the Taliban.

According to Pakistani narcotics intelligence agents, the world's many international drug cartels have become active in the region, notably those from Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan itself, all of them attracted by the abundance and low price of the cultivated opium.