The widows survive on food bought with their earnings from the wool-processing trade and on donations from relatives and international aid groups. Her husband, Mohammad Sadeq, recently died of illness, Bibi said, leaving her to care for her sons’ widows and her eight grandchildren. Faqiryar, the governor, said the village emerged as the area’s centre of drug trafficking after a local man started an opium smuggling operation there three decades ago. For the widows’ village and other settlements in Herat province, the war is never far away. As they struggle to raise their children, many fear their sons will follow their dead fathers into the drug trafficking business.

Source: bd News24 December 27, 2020 22:30 UTC