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Pakistan
Narcotics
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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