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Afghanistan's police have found narcotics and taken a suspected man into custody in the country's capital Kabul, the Ministry of Interior confirmed on Friday."Kabul police officers carried out a targeted reconnaissance operation, arresting a man with 14,000 pieces of Tablet-K narcotics worth 2.1 million afghanis (about 23,600 U.S. dollars) in the Police District 10 of Kabul," according to a ministry statement.The Tablet-K is the street name for a drug with stimulant effects that are often sold in Afghanistan. Further investigation was underway, the statement said. The Taliban-run caretaker administration has vowed to fight illicit drug-related crimes until the war-torn country gets rid of the menace, reported Xinhua.Afghanistan's fastest-growing drug industry operates from desert outposts in plain view, a US media report said, weeks after the Taliban announced a ban on poppy cultivation.This comes as Afghanistan has been a global hub for opium production, estimated to supply 80 percent of the world's opiate users.According to The Washington Post, the meth industry is growing at record speed, stoking fears that the country could become a major supplier as demand rises globally.The US newspaper said that hundreds of meth labs have appeared in the country over the past six years. The report added that more are being built each month as the country's economic crisis forces Afghans to find new sources of income, the report said and added the vast majority of meth produced is for export."These labs have been extremely busy these last few months, as a consequence of the sheer amount of ephedra that passed through," said David Mansfield, an expert on Afghanistan's illicit economy who has produced reports for the World Bank and European Commission, drawing from on-the-ground investigators, aerial imagery and other sources.According to the Post, though the Taliban inspect the market, they have not tried to shut it down. This is happening despite the ban issued by the Taliban issued on the growing, production and distribution of illicit drugs.Abdulwadood who works openly in the methamphetamine business said the only reason they are in this business is that there are no other jobs. "Of course, if the economy gets worse, more people will start producing shisha.""A significant part of the Taliban's revenue comes from taxing illicit commodities, and drugs is one of those," said Andrew Cunningham, who heads the drug markets, crime and supply reduction branch at the EU's European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction."It's impossible to provide even the most basic of services unless there's money coming into the government coffers," Cunningham noted.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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