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VOA: UN: Afghan Opium Production Down 48%
ISLAMABAD — The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported Wednesday that the amount of opium produced in Afghanistan during the current year dropped by 48 percent.
"We have 3,300 tons of opium production this year as compared to 6,400 tons last year," UNODC regional representative Andrey Avetisyan,told reporters in Kabul.
The UNODC attributed the dramatic drop to better cooperation between enforcement agencies and Afghan policy makers. The low production can also be attributed to a reduction in area under cultivation, but more importantly to a drop in opium yield per hectare, according the findings of the survey.
Update: Survey Shows Decrease in Afghanistan Opium Poppy Cultivation -- AP
WNU Editor: The above BBC report claims there are one million addicts in Afghanistan, but I have read that the number is actually closer to two million. Either way .... this is a crisis that is under-reported in the West, and it is a scourge that I am sure that many are hoping will be eliminated one day.
KEEP SCROLLING TO THE END ...WE STILL GOT LOTS MORE .......
Source : http://www.coolnsmart.com/wise_quotes/
YOU CAN SKIP THIS PART(short joke)...
A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbour through the window hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap".
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time the neighbour would hang laundry to dry, the young woman would make the same
comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this!"
The husband replied: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life.
What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
Easy to discuss other people, their lives and things that don't really concern us.
Yet we tend to forget- our window isn't that clean after all.
Clean up your window with the WORD! (THE TRUTH.)
LORD, please give us the strength, humility and courage that we may work on our faults first rather than seeing the faults in Others and castigating them.
Have a beautiful Week !
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