The winners of this year’s Pitch Prize are following a package of heroin from the Afghan poppy fields all the way to the needle in Europe. Their journey will take them through Iran, Turkey and across Eastern-European borders.
Update 2 from Nimroz, Afghanistan:
“In Nimroz only 60 out of 15.000 hectares of poppy fields were destroyed last season, due to lack of staff and an unsupportive governor”, says the Counter Narcotics Director.
![From the Afghan border province of Nimroz – also called ‘little Colombia’ - heroin is smuggled into Pakistan and Iran. Drug lords control politics and you can just buy heroin in the local bazar](https://blog.hostwriter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/12138565_10156086174495507_3454703800558707831_o-1024x682.jpg)
From the Afghan border province of Nimroz – also called ‘little Colombia’ – heroin is smuggled into Pakistan and Iran. Drug lords control politics and you can just buy heroin in the local bazar
![Cooking pots and chemicals used for heroin production, and a tyre used for smuggling lay in the Counter Narcotics Police headquarters. They will be used as evidence in future trials.](https://blog.hostwriter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/12139913_10156086185020507_5852193791499328978_o-1024x682.jpg)
Cooking pots and chemicals used for heroin production, and a tyre used for smuggling lay in the Counter Narcotics Police headquarters. They will be used as evidence in future trials.
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