Production and Distribution Regions
The following areas of Afghanistan play a role in the drug traffic:
- Production
- "Southern region" of Helmand and Kandahar provinces, on the border with Pakistan, which are the highest-volume areas for drug transactions. There is a traditional route from Helmand, through Pakistan, to Iran
- Smuggling
- Herat, in Herat Province, the Northern Alliance stronghold, which borders Iran
- Faizabad, in Badakhshan province, which has borders with Tajikstan, Pakistan, and China.
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