ISLAMABAD: The Afghan interim government announced the formation of a committee on Sunday to probe violent clashes that left two people dead in the northeastern Badakhshan province following protests over the Taliban’s eradication of poppy fields. The rare protests against the Taliban began on Friday in Draim district after the Taliban forces implemented a poppy cultivation ban decreed by their supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, in … Continue reading Taliban face rare protests over poppy crackdown