Afghan Security Forces have prevented the smuggling of more than 1,000 Kg of precious stones in the Torkham town of eastern Nangarhar.

A French court has jailed four Afghans and given shorter sentences to five others as part of a crackdown on the smuggling of migrants across the English Channel.

Independent Persian, quoting the Business Insider news website published in America, the results of an investigation on the smuggling of cash and gold by the senior officials of Ashraf Ghani’s government on Tuesday.

The border forces in Herat prevented the smuggling of precious stones out of the country. Local security officials said.

The following article was written by an Iranian citizen journalist on the ground inside the country, who writes under a pseudonym to protect his or her identity.

Afghanistanʹs drug economy provides a regular income to rural communities in this extremely unstable country. With eighty-five percent of villages in the countryʹs south cultivating opium poppies, yield fluctuations have more to do with the weather than government policy.