Taliban face rare public uprising against their rule in northeastern Afghanistan
Voice of America
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Afghanistan’s hardline Taliban leaders have threatened to militarily suppress unprecedented violent public protests in a northeastern border region against a nationwide ban on poppy cultivation.
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