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Been pretty much erased from the history books. glenn s uncles came over from the caribbean to train with the raf in nearby hunmanby. he wanted a memorial for them and thousands of others who volunteered to serve. i help people. iam proud. ifeel for my comrade. you know. some are missing, obviously. you re live with bbc news. the taliban has been in powerfor over 18 months now and although income from poppies helped fund their insurgency, they are now trying to get a grip of the drug problem in kabul. thousands of addicts have been rounded up from the streets forced into rehab to give them time to dry out. but although th taliban government has imposed a complete ban on poppy production, the un says opium ....
Cultivation increased by 32% in 2022. yalda hakim reports from kabul on the difficultjourney. hundreds of men rounded up by their new taliban rulers. but this is not what it seems. and this is where they have come from. they used to live under this bridge in western kabul. the taliban say they are cracking down. they are among afghanistan s more than 3.5 million drug addicts. now the bridge has been cleared. this particular part of the bridge used to be packed with addicts. they were often huddled together, high and shooting up. it was a frightening sight for those trying to get past. this is where they are bringing them, to a former us military base in the capital. now, a makeshift rudimentary rehabilitation centre where conditions are squalid. ....
And we are implementing the ban. afghanistan will be drugs free soon. but i was in helmand and they were still cultivating there. i can t comment on this because i haven t seen it, but there are orders of complete prohibition. but the un says that since the taliban swept to power in 2021, drug cultivation has increased. these men will be kept at this facility for six weeks. resources are limited. more than 3,000 addicts have been crammed in a space with 1,000 beds. this is a country where drugs had been readily available and cheap. the likelihood that these addicts will relapse when they re out again is high. as the taliban learn how to transition from insurgency to governing a country, it s challenges like this that they have to grapple. yalda hakim, bbc news, kabul. ....
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator with damaged liver and may lose an eye after the Mumbai-born controversial author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen by a man at a speaking event in New York state, sending shockwaves across the literary world which condemned the incident as an attack on freedom of expression. World News | Salman Rushdie on Ventilator, Likely to Lose an Eye; Suspect in Custody. ....
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. A Booker Prize that catapulted him to the pantheon of global literary stalwarts to a fatwa by Iran s Supreme Leader that forced him into hiding and years of death threats, Mumbai-born author Salman Rushdie was both idolised and demonised for a singular trait that defined his life and works championing free speech. World News | Salman Rushdie: The Free Speech Champion Whose verses Put His Life at Risk. ....