The drug trafficking situation in Afghanistan remains challenging despite efforts by the Taliban to curb the trade, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu said, according to Russia’s state news agency TASS.
Shoigu acknowledged that the Taliban leadership has managed to reverse what he described as a negative trend in drug trafficking. However, he warned that new threats have since emerged.
“The drug trafficking situation in Afghanistan remains complicated, primarily due to the increasing use of synthetic opioids such as nitazenes, which are more powerful than fentanyl and deadly even in microdoses,” Shoigu said.
