Afghan intelligence agency sacks 65 'heroin addicts'

KABUL (Reuters) - The intelligence service of opium-plagued Afghanistan has sacked 65 officers after discovering they were addicted to heroin, the agency's head said on Tuesday. The announcement camed weeks after the United Nations said Afghanistan, which is responsible for producing at least 80 percent of the world's opium, risked becoming a "narco state" due to a jump in poppy production over the last year. "We have sacked 65 employees who were addicted to heroin and our efforts will continue," the acting head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Rahmatullah Nabil, told parliament. ...



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