Drug Growers – Pakistan

March 1993
Growing hasish and opium is part of the culture of Pashtun tribes in northern Pakistan. Many depend on it for their livelihoods.

Armed resistance is their only way to fight their governments ‘Holy War’ on drugs. With weapons like the AK47 freely available in Darra (the arms capital of North West Pakistan) neither side will back down. We visit the secretive tribally-controlled Khyber Agency bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan authorities don’t dare close the multitude of heroin labs – they fear rebellion. Last time the government took on the Pushtun, ninety people were killed. Film of Pashtun poppy farmer Fez Mohammed, government anti-drug crusader Nawaz Malik, smoking in a hash den, the buying of weapons, tribal leaders, and James Magnor, the US narcotics attaché in Pakistan. Given viable alternative industries and jobs, the Pashtun people say they will abandon the poppy. Now, there is little hope of that with a government which now spends 80% of its budget on its military and the servicing of its national debt.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

Duration : 0:13:16


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25 Responses to “Drug Growers – Pakistan”

  1. maikelvender on May 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am

    i want 50gr paki …
    i want 50gr paki hash for this price

  2. maikelvender on May 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am

    i want 50gr paki …
    i want 50gr paki hash for this price

  3. maikelvender on May 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am

    i want 50gr paki …
    i want 50gr paki hash for this price

  4. love pakistanese …
    love pakistanese hashish

  5. @ellijadoon you …
    @ellijadoon you crazy or something…our people have to grow opium because you fail to provide them with an education, and an alternate way of earning a living in our country. 80% of your budget is spent on military when your own people don’t have money to eat. And then stupid like you that don’t think because you are incapable of doing so become a weapon of someones interest, while believing it to be an obligation to you. OPEN YOUR EYES

  6. mypenisandballs on May 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am

    guy at 0:48 looks …
    guy at 0:48 looks blazed with his eyes

  7. @garyfromtheUK lol …
    @garyfromtheUK lol lol. ma man lol

  8. Long Live Pakistan, …
    Long Live Pakistan, this is weapon against KUFFAAAAAR, MUSHRIKEEN etc, we will we will rock uuuuuuuuuuuuuu,

  9. No doubt India and …
    No doubt India and America are involved. Why Answer me, If Pakistan is using suicide bomber then why Pakistan did not use or using them in India or Kashmir.?????????????????????? ?????????????????????????? they are drug growers..

  10. they shoot up the …
    they shoot up the prices for foreigners. he probably doubled the price for the lady.

  11. TheCaptainLulz on May 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am

    3:49 LOL is that a …
    3:49 LOL is that a tommy gun.

  12. Smoking Opium, or …
    Smoking Opium, or using Opium to make Heroin is bullshit and disgusting. HOWEVER, isn’t there any way for these people to use Opium for legitimate, regulated purposes?

    Oxycotin and Morphine is made from this stuff right? We should help them go legit, because heroin and opium is NOT legit.

  13. ola la ,, buying an …
    ola la ,, buying an AK47 on the go

  14. I hope these paki …
    I hope these paki growers OD off heroin and DIEEE!!

  15. garyfromtheUK on May 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am

    400 us dolars for …
    400 us dolars for an AK you can get a used one in london for £150

  16. Ofcourse it matters …
    Ofcourse it matters, when Jews act like the mafia or conduct “religious” business, then they shall be treated like a cult. Read on AIPAC, even AIPAC says 70% of Jews consider their businesses part of the Jewish and Zionist cause. So any business they do is fair to be included as part of the Jewish movement, that includes all their pharmaceutical ownership, weapons industries etc.

  17. U DIDNT UNDERSTOOD …
    U DIDNT UNDERSTOOD MY COMMENT…it may be true it may be not…even cus ur only sayin it without knowin…but if its true or not i dont even care…cus what got my atention was in fact,u sayin JEWISH….does that matter??its worst than muslim or catholic?DONT BE A AND A RACIST,THEN WE TALK….now go start ur gossips to someone who really cares about ur racist litle mind

  18. Go and read about …
    Go and read about Johnson Johson, its Jewish owners and their monopoly on Tasmainian opium production, then talk.

  19. jewish?what that …
    jewish?what that have to do with the subject anyway?when will u guys understand that has nothing to do with NO COLOR NO RACE NO RELIGION….its just PEOPLE and PEOPLE are all the same…same problems same moral issues whatever u want to mencion…peace

  20. cocodapitbull on May 1st, 2010 at 10:39 am

    theyre making a …
    theyre making a killing on them ak’s!

  21. Islam does not …
    Islam does not preach to drink alcohol…it is ironical that the pashtuns cultivate and sell opium and take its name in the same breath as God..
    There is something missing here… hypocrates!!!

  22. these are all …
    these are all munafiq pashtuns..they say we are islamists..islam is against such business which they say is second to them afer God.. hypocrate..pashtuns actually kafirs…

  23. its funny……. …
    its funny……. the governments themselves buy opium to administer morphine to pained ones in hospitals…… and now they want to destroy the crop….. the pharmaceutical cartel is enourmous….. destory opium, so the only market available is theirs….. Johnson and Johnson, jewish, owns 90% if the core crops of legal opium, in India, Tazmania and Turkey. In other words, destroy illegal opium so we can make legal addicts in the form of a pain pill.

  24. What about the …
    What about the people who brought the laboratories and thought them how to make drugs out of it. They are innocent because they belong to the western world. According to the international investigations, In 2000 the total amount of opium produced in Afghanistan was 97 tons, In 2007 it went up over 7600 tons. Don,t ask any body why? You figure it out or read the book by “Mike Ruppert” Crossing the rubicon.

  25. Stupid. Don’t they …
    Stupid. Don’t they see that targeting that individual farmer and destroying his crop only inflates the price of opium and brings in more money for the armed farmers that the government are afraid to deal with. It is completely useless and actually more likely to exacerbate things, concentrating more power into the hands of the drug lords by dramatically inflating the price of drugs.

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