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Pakistani Dilemmas, 1947–97

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Drugs in South Asia

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The fruitless attempts of the Pakistani leaders to revive the licit opium industry, coupled with the geo-strategic changes in southwest Asia at the beginning of the 1980s, eventually helped the rise of illicit production and transit trafficking of heroin in Pakistan. For revenue purposes, Pakistan retained the century-old drug laws that facilitated the illicit production of opium poppy by Pathan cultivators. In 1975, the adoption of Islamic prohibitions by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto produced a form of political mockery. The continuance of a similar policy by General Zia at the beginning of political instability in southwest Asia, failed to control the domestic abuse of drugs.

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Haq, M.Eu. (2000). Pakistani Dilemmas, 1947–97. In: Drugs in South Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333981436_6

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