{"id":38815,"date":"2021-11-11T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/11\/its-our-lifeline-the-taliban-are-back-but-afghans-say-opium-is-here-to-stay"},"modified":"2021-11-11T15:31:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:31:02","slug":"its-our-lifeline-the-taliban-are-back-but-afghans-say-opium-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38815","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s our lifeline\u2019: the Taliban are back but Afghans say opium is here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite talk of a Taliban ban, in Helmand\u2019s poppy fields farmers and traders say they are not the only ones who depend on the drug to survive<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s announcement that it plans to ban the production of opium in Afghanistan does not faze seasoned dealer Ahmed Khan*.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey could not fund their war if there were no opium,\u201d says Khan, who operates out of Baramcha, close to the border with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/11\/its-our-lifeline-the-taliban-are-back-but-afghans-say-opium-is-here-to-stay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite talk of a Taliban ban, in Helmand\u2019s poppy fields farmers and traders say they are not the only ones who depend on the drug to surviveThe Taliban\u2019s announcement that it plans to ban the production of opium in Afghanistan does not faze seasoned d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1057,59,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-drugs-trade","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38816,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815\/revisions\/38816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}