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...Afghan Students Initiative] helps to shape our vision for the future of Afghanistan,” Raz says. “It encourages me about the future of our country because I have a hope that these students will make a change for Afghanistan...
These ambitions are typical of the students who participate in the Afghan Students Initiative, Dhillon says...
...earlier version of the April 1 news article "Afghan Students Join HKS Group" incorrectly stated that Harvard Law School currently enrolls only one Afghan student. In fact, there are currently two Afghan students at HLS, according to HLS student Saeeq Shajjan...
...heroin. But now U.N. officials say Afghanistan is also the world's biggest producer of another drug - hashish. In its first attempt to calculate how much cannabis is grown in the country, the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime says in a report released in Kabul on Wednesday that Afghan farmers earned up to $94 million last year from selling 1,500 to 3,500 tons of hash - the resin extracted from cannabis crops...
That might be true. But the U.N.'s findings show how daunting a task it is for Afghan and NATO officials to persuade thousands of farmers to switch from growing drugs to growing food. Farmers can earn about three times as much money growing cannabis as growing wheat: about $3,900 per hectare, compared with $1,200 per hectare. What's more, cannabis is even more lucrative to grow than opium poppies, which yield about $3,600 per hectare. It's also far cheaper to grow cannabis than poppies, requiring little sophisticated cultivation. The report says it is an almost...