Talk:News:2023-09-21/Eradication/paktia-police-report-clearing-325-acres-of-hashish-in-aryub-district
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Dating
Xinhua reports a statement of the Ministry of Interior Affairs issued "on Thursday", which was 21 September 2023, saying the hashish had been cleared "recently". The item uses the date of the statement.
Place
This report names "Aryub district"; the Xinhua report of 26 September 2023 names the "Zazi Aryub area". The item records the district as Zazi Aryub.
Map pin
No seat for the district was found in Wikidata or OpenStreetMap, so the pin is the middle of the district (OpenStreetMap relation 6600414), rounded to two decimals. Nothing happened at that point.
Related news items
Two later Xinhua reports give larger figures for Paktia. On 23 September 2023 (Xinhua) the ministry said police had destroyed "2,070 acres of hashish in the neighboring Paktia province over the past week". On 26 September 2023 (Xinhua) the provincial police chief said 3,060 acres had been destroyed in an operation launched four days earlier in the Zazi Aryub area; that report is a separate news item. Whether these figures include the 325 acres is not stated in the reports.
These notes were recorded when the news item was prepared. Éloise 05:47, 10 November 2026 (+07)