Hope that is built on heroin
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Afghanistan is the biggest opium producer in the world, harvesting 3,000 tons in 1992. It is refined in Pakistan laboratories into heroin and smuggled to Europe. Opium is the most profitable crop for farmers re-establishing themselves after the war. The 1992 crop is worth about 12 billion pounds sterling in Europe. Each kilo of opium earns a supplier 50 pounds sterling. Afghans do not smoke heroin and do not relate to the problems of addiction which they are supplying. Some mugahedin commanders have declared opium un-Islamic but the government has not taken any steps to prevent growing and smuggling.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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Dalai Lama points finger at Peking
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Six-year-old Gedhun Chekokyi Nyima, the exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama's candidate for Panchen Lama, was seized by the Chinese Communist authorities in May 1995, and may now be being held in a psychiatric clinic, according to the Dalai Lama. He is now trying to gain international support to release the boy, whom he sees as a political prisoner. He also fears that the last Panchen Lama, who died in Jan 1989, may have been killed by the Chinese.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
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Kashmiri voters set to 'stay away in anger.' (Muslim separatists try to deter people from voting in elections in Indian state of Kashmir)
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There is great tension in the Indian state of Kashmir, where elections are due to take place. Muslim separatists are issuing strong threats designed to deter people from voting, while the Indian authorities are trying to ensure that people do vote. An additional 100,000 soldiers and police have been despatched to the Kashmir valley, and this has so far kept the Muslim militants under control.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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