Part 1: the Taliban According to confidential source, high-ranking Taliban leaders in collaboration with private businesspersons abroad run a number of businesses. Taliban leaders transferred drug...
The Taliban has issued a decree banning the cultivation of opium poppy. “As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,...
Authors: Harsh Mahaseth and Samyuktha Karthikeyan* A simple search on YouTube titled “drug consumption in Nepal”, would lead to many awareness videos highlighting several stories of...
On December 12th, 2006 former Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, declared what would be one of the most intrusive and intense military strategies in the history of...
Around 275 million people used drugs worldwide in the last year of unprecedented upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, up by 22 per cent from 2010....
A few months ago, the World Drug Report 2020 was published, which assessed the development trends of the global drug market over the last ten years,...
In this globalized world, time and space are shrinking with the advent of technologies. But the prevailing global interconnections are creating some irreversible collision among the...
The Afghan drug trade supplying the Russian market has fuelled conflict, corruption, and instability in the region, provided financial support to terrorist organisations and led to...
A campaign to eradicate illegal drugs in the Philippines that began in 2016 has led to the killing of at least 8,600 people but the real...
Maritime trafficking routes closely follow the commercial shipping lanes. The modalities, technologies and strategies put into place by criminals are often times more sophisticated in caliber...