Afghanistan has again topped the list of the world's biggest narcotics producers with drug smugglers using a route through India more than in previous years, according to the US State Department.
The annual report on global trends in the illegal narcotics trade confirmed that Afghanistan retains its position as the world's top opiate producer.
It also said that the drugs smuggled in 2012 through India from Afghanistan are increasing via Pakistan.
According to the Afghan Ministry's counter narcotics department, poppy cultivation in Afghanistan increased 18 percent from 2011 to 2012, but drug production dropped 40 percent mainly because of the government's poppy eradication drive whereby government and security forces physically destroy farmers' poppy crops.
Host Yama Siavash looks at different aspects of this with Afghan Counter-Narcotics Deputy Minister Mohammad Ibrahim Azhar and MP Humayoun Humayoun.
