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Kabul: Afghan counter-narcotics police have smashed poppy farms on 180 acres of land, and arrested three people in south Afghanistan's Helmand province, provincial police spokesman Mullah Ezatullah Haqqani said Saturday.
The counter-narcotics police made the arrests and destroyed the poppy farms in operations conducted in Kajaki district of the province over the past couple of days, the official said, adding that police will not allow anyone to cultivate illegal crops.
Police have also taken into custody three people on charges of involvement in drug trafficking, the official said.
The Afghan interim government has banned poppy cultivation, processing and drug trafficking to eliminate the drug menace.
