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Ayub Afridi ( Pashto: ایوب اپریدی, Urdu: ایوب افریدی; c. 1930–1939 – 24, November 2009) was a Pakistani drug smuggler and tribal politician. [1] He is considered to be the primary founder of the widespread drug trade (particularly heroin) in Afghanistan. [2] There are a variety of speculations that Afridi, following his close collaboration with the CIA for Operation ...
The Shafia family murders took place on June 30, 2009, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Shafia sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with their father's wife Rona Muhammad Omar, 52 (all of Afghan origin), were found dead inside a car that was discovered underwater in front of the northernmost Kingston Mills lock of the Rideau Canal. [1] Zainab, Sahar, and Geeti were daughters of ...
Cannabis is illegal in Afghanistan. It has been cultivated for centuries, and experienced relatively little interference until the 1970s, where after it became an issue both in international politics and in the finance of the series of wars which occurred in Afghanistan for forty years. In 2010, the United Nations reported that Afghanistan was ...
Hashish ( Arabic: حشيش, ( IPA: [ħæʃiːʃ] )), commonly shortened to hash, is an oleoresin made by compressing and processing parts of the cannabis plant, typically focusing on flowering buds (female flowers) containing the most trichomes.
At 31 years old, Nasrat Ahmad Yar had spent most of his adult life working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan before escaping to America in search of a better life for his wife and four ...
Winfield: 3 years in prison (paroled after 1 year) The Maywand District murders were the thrill killings of at least three Afghan civilians perpetrated by a group of U.S. Army soldiers from January to May 2010, during the War in Afghanistan. The soldiers, who referred to themselves as the "Kill Team", [1] [2] were members of the 3rd Platoon ...
News of the event broke two days after the strike was conducted, after intelligence confirmed that al-Zawahiri was dead. [17] A senior Biden administration official confirmed to reporters that a drone strike had taken place in Afghanistan and that it had eliminated an al-Qaeda target.
The war, launched by the United States as " Operation Enduring Freedom " in 2001, began with an initial air campaign that almost immediately prompted concerns over the number of Afghan civilians being killed. [4] According to The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the majority of civilian casualties were attributed to the Taliban and other anti-government elements each ...