Afghan border regions with Iran and Pakistan become new global drug production centers

Following the Taliban's widespread ban on illicit drugs in 2022, opium production in Afghanistan has significantly decreased. However, cultivation is increasingly shifting to neighboring Pakistan and Iran. Border regions in Pakistan's Balochistan and Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan provinces are seeing expanded poppy cultivation, becoming new global centers for drug production.

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