The Taliban's Ministry of Interior has rejected the recent SIGAR report, stating that opium smuggling and trade are banned in Afghanistan and that no one is permitted to cultivate or trade it.
Tarz Press – The Taliban's Ministry of Interior issued a statement declaring that SIGAR's report is fundamentally baseless and that the Taliban have successfully reduced the cultivation and trade of narcotics to zero. The statement from the Ministry of Interior reads: "The recent SIGAR report is unfounded. For the first time in several decades, the phenomenon of narcotics has been eradicated across the country."
Previously, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported that drug trafficking continues in Afghanistan and that people have resisted the Taliban's ban on the cultivation and trade of narcotics. SIGAR cited Afghanistan's economic problems as one of the reasons leading to the violation of the Taliban's decrees and orders in this regard.
