TO GO WITH Afghanistan-unrest-drugs,FEAT

TO GO WITH Afghanistan-unrest-drugs,FEATURE by Mohammad Yaqob (FILES) In this file picture taken on December 23, 2009, a recovering Afghan drug addict reads a book as he sits on a weightlifting bench at the NEJAT Centre in Kabul, a non-governmental organisation which helps rehabilitate Afghan drug addicts, some who are HIV positive. The NEJAT Centre has rehabilitated over 600 drug addicts since May 2009. Afghanistan's Kandahar and neighbouring Helmand province produce most of the world's opium, the raw material of heroin, in an illicit industry worth billions of dollars. Drugs, as well as protection money extorted from aid projects, is funding an insurgency that has become increasingly virulent in recent years, experts say. AFP PHOTO/Massoud HOSSAINI/FILES (Photo credit should read MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP via Getty Images)