 Asadullah Khalid was also accused of being involved in drug trafficking.Kabul Press in 2009, cited sources from the presidential palace which claimed that Khalid was "the most crucial member of a narcotics producing and smuggling syndicate".Khaled Monawar, during his tenure as Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nations in Vienna in 2007, claimed that Asadullah Khalid had no plan to eradicate opium from the province and neither was he interested to follow the existing plan.