Addicts, mullahs, and meth: Inside Afghanistan’s harsh war on drugs

Mihaela Măncilă

The Taliban cleared the parks and bridges of Kabul – but behind the barred windows of rehab centers, another battle rages on “You forgot to photograph this,” says  a young man in a green patient gown as he proudly points to his neck decorated with three five-point stars. He has a knife tattooed on the back of his hand and the letters PJR on his fingers – for his home province of Panjshir. All the tattoos were done in prison, where he ended up after a street fight. But this conversation we are

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