Three policemen were killed and five others were injured in an explosion in Faizabad city, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern province of Badakhshan, officials confirmed on Wednesday. A bomb hidden on a motorbike was detonated while a police convoy was patrolling to destroy poppy cultivation, according to a statement from the Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Matin Qani. This attack follows a recent period of tension in the province. On Friday, clashes erupted between residents and Taliban counter-narcotics forces over poppy eradication efforts, resulting in the death of at least on…