More: Drugs
Narcotrafficking: A National Security Threat
The United States is facing a crisis at its porous southern border, which 2.78 million undocumented aliens crossed in 2022 . At the same...
How the Terrorist Groups get Financed and Sponsored in Afghanistan and the Region?
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...
Taliban strictly bans drugs in Afghanistan
The Taliban has issued a decree banning the cultivation of opium poppy. “As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate...
Nepal Assigns Drug Control Officers for Each District
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...
Is Mexico becoming a narco state?
On December 12th, 2006 former Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, declared what would be one of the most intrusive and intense military strategies in the...
COVID pandemic fuelling major increase in drug use worldwide
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...
The drug market between affluent societies and social despair
A few months ago, the World Drug Report 2020 was published, which assessed the development trends of the global drug market over the last...
Afghanistan: Anarchy in Practice
In this globalized world, time and space are shrinking with the advent of technologies. But the prevailing global interconnections are creating some irreversible collision...
Tackling the Illicit Drug Trade: Perspectives From Russia
The Afghan drug trade supplying the Russian market has fuelled conflict, corruption, and instability in the region, provided financial support to terrorist organisations and...
Philippines drug campaign directive seen as ‘permission to kill’
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...