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Islamabad
30 September 2007
The head of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency has praised Pakistan as a model for eradicating1 drug production. But, she says more cooperation is needed from neighboring Afghanistan where record-high poppy production is funding insurgents3 and threatening regional stability. Daniel Schearf reports from Islamabad.
The U.S. DEA chief is calling Pakistan a success story in the global war on drugs. Speaking in Islamabad Friday, Karen Tandy said Pakistan was once a heroin4 supplying country, but is now almost poppy-free.
She credited Pakistan's Anti-Narcotics Force and Frontier Corps5 with catching6 drug traffickers, and said the DEA would continue offering them training and other support.
But, in stark7 contrast to Pakistan, Tandy called Afghanistan's fast-growing opium8 trade a "monster." She said cooperation is needed to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a "narco-state," fueling volatility9 and terrorism in the region.
Tandy said insurgents in Afghanistan are funding their increasing attacks on security forces with drug money. Afghanistan's southern provinces are leaders in both poppy cultivation10 and insurgent2 violence.
Earlier in the week, she visited Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, and told journalists the DEA would work to strengthen intelligence sharing between counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency forces, including NATO's International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF (I-SAF).
"These traffickers provide a lifeline for the insurgents. And, that is funding. It is for that reason that, on the enforcement side, the counter-narcotics police need the Afghan national army. And, in our supporting roles, DEA and ISAF [I-SAF] need to be together on this as well," she said.
Tandy says the DEA has provided more than a dozen alerts that have directly averted11 deadly attacks against Afghan, U.S. and ISAF (I-SAF) personnel. She says DEA intelligence-sharing has also helped capture several major drug traffickers with links to terrorism and the Taleban.
Afghanistan's opium production was significantly reduced during the Taleban's hard-line Islamic rule. But, since the U.S.-led coalition12 toppled the Taleban government in 2001, poppy production has soared to record highs, and the Taleban have gone from being drug eradicators to drug dealers13.
A U.N. report released in August says land under poppy cultivation rose to 193,000 hectares in 2007, up from 165,000 in 2006.
Tandy says Pakistan and Afghanistan should set aside historical differences and work together to stop the drug trade.
Afghanistan now produces more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, most of it from provinces bordering Pakistan's volatile14 tribal15 areas where the Taleban have strong support and corrupt16 officials benefit from the trade.
1 eradicating | |
摧毁,完全根除( eradicate的现在分词 ) | |
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2 insurgent | |
adj.叛乱的,起事的;n.叛乱分子 | |
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n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 ) | |
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4 heroin | |
n.海洛因 | |
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n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组 | |
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6 catching | |
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住 | |
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7 stark | |
adj.荒凉的;严酷的;完全的;adv.完全地 | |
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8 opium | |
n.鸦片;adj.鸦片的 | |
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n.挥发性,挥发度,轻快,(性格)反复无常 | |
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10 cultivation | |
n.耕作,培养,栽培(法),养成 | |
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11 averted | |
防止,避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 ); 转移 | |
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n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合 | |
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13 dealers | |
n.商人( dealer的名词复数 );贩毒者;毒品贩子;发牌者 | |
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adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质 | |
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adj.部族的,种族的 | |
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v.贿赂,收买;adj.腐败的,贪污的 | |
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