Forging Every Link in the Afghan Opium Chain, Taliban Become a Cartel - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/world/asia/afghanistan-opium-taliban-drug-cartel.html
In many respects, Mullah Rashid embodies the evolution of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. As a hardened insurgent, most notorious for planning a mass suicide attack in Nimruz during the holy month of Ramadan, he had become among the most powerful drug smugglers in all of southern Afghanistan.