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Informed Comment Global Affairs: Poor Helmand Security Situation Explained: Interview

Informed Comment Global Affairs: Poor Helmand Security Situation Explained: Interview
The USG Open Source Center translates an interview with a female member of parliament for Afghanistan's troubled Helmand Province, Nasima Niazi in which she explains the security problems there from a local point of view. Helmand is a major center of the Taliban resurgence and produces much of Afghanistan's poppy crop, which is turned by dealers into heroin.

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