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Realpolitik: The Taliban knows its population depends on income from the poppy trade. Afghan men surround bags of heroin and hashish as they negotiate and check quality at a drug market on the outskirts of Kandahar. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Afghanistan’s poppy fields bloom

It is not clear yet whether the Taliban government will clamp down on the illicit trade

Eunice Masson