This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to two journalists

Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsay Kennedy they've just got back from a trip to

Afghanistan where they were reporting on the drugs trafficking situation in the

country now that the war was lost and the Taliban has won essentially it's the Taliban's Afghanistan now

the Taliban said that they're going to put a stop to this stuff but actually in some

ways it's only gotten worse people are making up more money and if they stop with this drug dealing then

some people are actually going to starve due to various blockades. It's an

interesting situation. If you like what we're doing here at popular front

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You've just come back from Afghanistan covering kind of, you know, post-war, at least

the victory for the Taliban.

It's now the Taliban's Afghanistan and you've been covering the illicit drug

trait. Tell us about that. It's something I think a lot of people don't really realize

is going on in Afghanistan with, you know, from the limited understanding I have

it of it, it's actually pretty massive.

Yeah, I think for us, it always really interested in the drug trade we do a lot about

organized driving trafficking around the world

then I was really curious what was going to happen when Afghanistan like

went to the Taliban like loads of respects right but drug trade specifically

when you got about 80% of the world's

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