Afghan President Hamid Karzai is obstructing efforts to tackle his country's drugs problem, says a former US narcotics official.

By VOA News A former US State Department official charges Afghanistan's drug trade is being protected by the country's top officials.

POPPY FIELDS FOREVER A crop in Helmand Province in 2006. An unlikely coalition of corrupt Afghan officials, timorous Europeans, blinkered Pentagon officers

WASHINGTON - The US government's former point man in the fight against the heroin trade in Afghanistan has accused Afghan President Hamid Karzai of

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration underscored its continued support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday despite fresh allegations from a

KABUL: A former top US counter-narcotics official alleges that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is obstructing the fight against Afghanistan’s narcotics trade.