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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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Pakistan
Index
Narcotics have become a multiple challenge to law
enforcement
authorities. In the late 1980s, Pakistan and Afghanistan
exported
nearly half the world's heroin, and, although their
relative
share declined somewhat thereafter, they remain among the
world's
major producers. Pakistan, especially under United States
prodding, has attempted to cut back the cultivation of
poppies,
but the government's influence has not extended
effectively into
tribal areas. In addition, various political and economic
forces
have been brought to bear to keep narcotics police from
pursuing
their work too assiduously. In 1991 the Pakistan Narcotics
Control Board--an organization that was supposed to have
close
ties to the United States Drug Enforcement
Administration--was so
riddled with corruption that its new director had to fire
a
majority of the staff. The vast profits generated by the
narcotics industry not only had corrupted the enforcement
authorities, including, it was rumored, some military
units, but
also had funded many other related crimes.
Data as of April 1994
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