Opiate of the frontier: Pakistan's tribes find it hard to give up poppy crop

Article Abstract:

Tribesmen in remote parts of Pakistan are reluctant to heed the government's exhortations to stop cultivating the opium poppies from which heroin is derived. This heroin ultimately reaches the country's 1.7 million addicts, making drug addiction a serious social problem in Pakistan. Under the government's campaign, poppy cultivation went from 32,400 hectares in 1979 to 6,100 in 1985 but then rose again to 9,600 in 1992. The government's assertions of success have probably been exaggerated. Stability in neighboring Afghanistan is necessary before opium production can be eliminated.

Social aspects, Laws, regulations and rules, Prevention, Opium trade, Opium poppy

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The first small steps

Article Abstract:

Both Pakistan and the US have made small but important policy adjustments to alleviate the tension caused by disagreement about Pakistan's alleged nuclear weapons program and the resulting ban of US civil and military aid to the country under the Pressler Amendment. The US Congress grouped Pakistan, China and India together on the nuclear and ballistic missiles issue, with the Pressler restrictions no longer exclusive to Pakistan, after enacting an amendment to its 1961 Foreign Aid Act. Both nations' governments have agreed to view nuclear affairs in a regional context.

United States, Political aspects, Pakistani foreign relations, United States foreign relations, Nuclear nonproliferation

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