Pakistan: Pakistan's Domestic Narcotics Problem Reflects Regional Instability

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: September 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

PAKISTAN: Pakistan's Domestic Narcotics Problem Reflects Regional Instability

Most Americans are aware that Pakistan, as part of the so-called "Golden Crescent" region of narcotics production in southwest Asia, has been a conduit for narcotics. These are primarily opium, which is refined into heroin, perhaps the most addictive of the hard drugs, and cannabis, the hemp plant whose derivatives are known as hashish in Europe and the Middle East, and marijuana in the United States. Americans also assume, rightly, that the narcotics traffic through Pakistan accelerated during the years of strife ...

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