The Taliban, since returning to power in Afghanistan in 2021 after the exit of the United States, has cracked down on the opium trade. Now, satellite images show that the cultivation of poppy – whose seeds comprise the raw material for heroin – has moved across the border to Pakistan’s Balochistan. The images revealed massive poppy farms in the restive south-west province. The developments have raised concerns in New Delhi that the drugs could find their way across the border and that terror groups could use the money raised via the heroin trade to attack India. But what happened? What do we know? Let’s take a closer look. Aerial images show that the restive province of Balochistan alone has 8,100 acres of poppy farms – surpassing the 8,000 acres of poppy farms in two provinces of Afghanistan. The images were procured by geographic data company Alcis.

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