Flashback to 2001: World's opium source destroyed | World news | The Observer

World's opium source destroyed | World news | The Observer: But this year things are different. In a development that has gone unnoticed and unrewarded by the international community, Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban rulers have dramatically ended the country's massive opium trade, The Observer can reveal - a move that has also plunged Hadda's farmers into despondency and debt.