The Geopolitics of Drugs

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THE VIEW FROM AFPAK

Afghanistan was not invaded to avenge terror attacks allegedly master minded by Afghanistan based Osama bin Laden and those who harbored him. The real intention was to convert Afghanistan into a permanent US military station wherefrom it could promote its strategic interests. These interests included tapping unexplored mineral resources of Central Asia and shipping gas and oil to Europe and USA through Afghanistan and Pakistan; monitoring China and Russia; remaining within turn round distance of Persian Gulf; preventing Iran from going nuclear and affecting a regime change of its choice; subverting and denuclearizing Pakistan; making India the regional policeman; restoring and controlling world largest supply of opium for world heroin markets and to use drugs as a geopolitics weapon against opponents, especially Russia. In pursuit of its multiple objectives Afghanistan was ruthlessly destroyed and till to-date has not been vacated.

When the Taliban under Mullah Omar captured power in 1996, the Islamic regime carried out host of social reforms including imposition of ban on opium production. There was steep decline in this practice for the first time. The Taliban during their rule till October 2001 suffered from worst economic crisis due to severe sanctions imposed by USA and western countries but they never used opium to build their economy. Interestingly, this ban became one of the core reasons for the US to invade Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has now become a narco-state and the largest opium producing country in the world. Younger brother of Hamid Karzai Ahmad Wali Karzai in Kandahar has been the main player exporting heroin to Europe through Turkmenistan. Indian Embassy in Kabul has been working as the coordinating centre for drug trade. Countries like Pakistan and Iran lying in the path of drug trade route are the worst affected since drugs destroy social norms and values as they have in the west. It has made a debilitating impact on societal fabric. By 2008, 8000 metric tons had been exported to world markets. Afghanistan is producing 8250 metric tons per year, which makes 90-92% of world opium supply.

Under the pretext of hunting al-Qaeda, CIA has made deep inroads in Pakistan. Drug money is not only used by CIA to finance its illegal operations in Pakistan and elsewhere but also US economy also which because of economic crunch is badly in need of liquidity in its banks that are closing down at an alarming rate. Russia has lashed out at US and NATO for refusing to destroy poppy crops in Afghanistan and not fighting drug production which implies that raw drug sources will remain sacrosanct. The US however puts blame on Taliban for poppy cultivation in Afghanistan for financing insurgency and to snatch this source, it has mounted massive offensive in Helmand, a stronghold of Taliban and major opium growing region.

Like the CIA, RAW and Mossad are also heavily involved in narcotic business. Indian drug barons have cultivated close ties with Afghan drug warlords and with Laos which is among the leading drug trading country. India ranks fifth largest illegal opium producing country in the world. Illicit poppy is being cultivated in large quantity in Himachal Pradesh, Arunchal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Mizoram. India is using profits made out of drug trafficking towards covert operation in Pakistan. Operation aimed at destabilizing Pakistan codenamed CIT X had been jointly conceived by RAW and Mossad for which criminal elements, mercenaries and drug mafia were engaged. 57 training camps were established in East Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Assam, Gujarat, Rajasthan and occupied Kashmir to train and launch terrorists inside Pakistan. Training was imparted to dissident elements from MQM, Jiye Sindh Mahaz, Jiye Sindh Students Federation and Baloch nationalists and other nationalist groups.

RAW in alliance with RAAM and with active backing of CIA has also set up 70 training camps in Afghanistan closer to Pakistan border where Chechens, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Afghans, Baloch and FATA rebels are trained and launched. Likewise, Indian consulates in Zahidan, Mashhad and Bandar Abbas are involved in covert operations in Balochistan and Sindh. Indian consulate in Dubai is also used as a base to launch terrorists in Pakistan. In nutshell, drug money is being used as a geopolitics weapon by the nexus to encircle and destabilize Pakistan.


AND THAT'S THE NEWS THATS NOT NEWS TO AFGHANS AND PAKISTANIS

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[AzariLoveIran]

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Interesting ..

Ahmadinjeat makes more and more sense .. a lot of sense .. a whole lot ..


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thought you were out breaking heads...

how's the suppression of liberty going back in ahmedinjeat land

welcome back

[AzariLoveIran]

[Tinker]

Woohoo a whole new generation of unintended consequences. I can't wait to meet the next MS13.

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azari



liberty for you and me and all

our brothers and sisters...

whoever

wherever

they may be...

de oppresso liber

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AZARI

Disappointment is the reaction to your post above .

gather you've not spent much time with the poor of this world

because if you had been with them while

walking hours to gather a bundle of branches or a a sack of dried dung to cook one meal

or day after day without finding a bit of protein for malnourished children

or long nights hearing a babies whimpers grow weaker and weaker and stop because of dysentery...

and seen the dignity with which the poor shoulder their basket of fate...

you would understand why freeing the poor is a profoundly noble cause....

and you would not dismiss them so glibly.

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Consumer Report


The price of Afghan opium fob Helmand has soared 164% this year.

How do we say laissez les bons temps rollez

in Pashto ?