In this Monday, April 11, 2016 photo, an Afghan farmer shows some harvested raw opium at a poppy field in Zhari district of southern Kandahar province, Afghanistan. A recent uptick in violence across the south will worsen once the poppy crop is harvested in coming weeks and the extremists deploy gunmen to protect their vast smuggling empire, officials, analysts and diplomats are predicting. (AP Photos/Allauddin Khan)
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