Afghan opium production up by 87% this year: UNODC survey

[Khafee]

Almost all of it will be smuggled out of Pakistan and the rest consumed there.

So this brings border control back into the picture. The border needs to be impenetrable, a very tough task given the terrain.

 

[Imran Khan]

trying to capture world market

 

[H!TchHiker]

So this brings border control back into the picture. The border needs to be impenetrable, a very tough task given the terrain.

No not such tough just a mere investigation how 70%export to Afghanistan found way back in Pakistan will close this gap.

 

[Khafee]

No not such tough just a mere investigation how 70%export to Afghanistan found way back in Pakistan will close this gap.

Well Afghanistan now has Chabahar, so it is time for the Pakistanis to seriously do something about this issue.

 

[H!TchHiker]

Well Afghanistan now has Chabahar, so it is time for the Pakistanis to seriously do something about this issue.

Agree...If rulers have mind that beside there throne other things do matter

 

[Sinnerman108]

So this brings border control back into the picture. The border needs to be impenetrable, a very tough task given the terrain.

Terrain and lack of technology
then there is demographics and political traitors who for the last 60 so years have survived smuggling
good and narcotics and do not know of any life style than crime.

What we need most effectively is surveillance and latest imagery.

This is why we need those propeller aircraft ( Tucano etc )

Keeps flying cheap for long time thrice daily, and maps the border with high def cameras.

Imagery can then be analyzed by intelligence; all of this is not more than 3 month project.

@Dazzler @Irfan Baloch

 

[HannibalBarca]

At least... We know that Talibans are coming back to life...

Terrain and lack of technology
then there is demographics and political traitors who for the last 60 so years have survived smuggling
good and narcotics and do not know of any life style than crime.

What we need most effectively is surveillance and latest imagery.

This is why we need those propeller aircraft ( Tucano etc )

Keeps flying cheap for long time thrice daily, and maps the border with high def cameras.

Imagery can then be analyzed by intelligence; all of this is not more than 3 month project.

@Dazzler @Irfan Baloch

Cheap Drones will be better suitable...

As for smugglers... Well tbh it's not their fault... if smugglers do it, that mean they have "customers" in the other side of the border... to dry out smugglers...
2 solutions... build a similar N-S korean no mans land border ( expensive solution) or... Tackle those "customers" inside Pakistan (Cheap solution)

 

[Dalit]

Another successive achievement with US/NATO presence. Simply mind boggling.

 

[Sinnerman108]

At least... We know that Talibans are coming back to life...



Cheap Drones will be better suitable...

As for smugglers... Well tbh it's not their fault... if smugglers do it, that mean they have "customers" in the other side of the border... to dry out smugglers...
2 solutions... build a similar N-S korean no mans land border ( expensive solution) or... Tackle those "customers" inside Pakistan (Cheap solution)

Drones work best, if you have a satellite based communication network. ( Line of sight problem )

Aircraft are more effective, because they can take action as required.

PS: Smuggling means Electronics, cars, cosmetics, car parts etc etc etc.
Since Afghanistan does not have sea port they use Pakistan's.
these things are all smuggled in duty free, and in return the sell drugs

 

[HannibalBarca]

Drones work best, if you have a satellite based communication network. ( Line of sight problem )

Aircraft are more effective, because they can take action as required.

PS: Smuggling means Electronics, cars, cosmetics, car parts etc etc etc.
Since Afghanistan does not have sea port they use Pakistan's.
these things are all smuggled in duty free, and in return the sell drugs

Armed drone... as for Satellite connection...don't worry China has your back...if you buy theirs ofc...

 

[Advocate Pakistan]

Well did you even care to read the articles from the link you provided ????

If not I can provide you an excerpt from the same from "The Guardian"



No if you can comprehend what is said in it, you will understand better. From the latest article from "The Guardian" itself on the topic.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...de-trail-of-addiction-treatment-opium-helmand

And an excerpt from the above;

Its production leaves behind a trail of addiction. Although most drugs are smuggled abroad, there are between 1.3 million and 1.6 million drug usersin Afghanistan, the UN estimates.

Treatment, though, is poor. In Helmand, where half the country’s poppies grow and where unemployment and poverty perpetuate the temptation of readily available drugs, the government offers only 70 spots at two rehabilitation clinics.

More than half of the poppy grows in Helmand, and I guess you are well aware who controls Helmand province.

Well I must say I had to come back to give what is my opinion on your "who controls Helmand"

The U.S. was able to defoliate entire forests in Vietnam in the 1970s, they would have progressed even more today with today's herbicides being much less harmful to the fauna unlike agent Orange.
They have just created a facade of Taliban control over the heart of Golden Crescent while they are skimming the money for their proxies.
The Taliban have been following the Fatwa against its production since 2001.

 

[Khafee]

Terrain and lack of technology
then there is demographics and political traitors who for the last 60 so years have survived smuggling
good and narcotics and do not know of any life style than crime.

What we need most effectively is surveillance and latest imagery.

This is why we need those propeller aircraft ( Tucano etc )

Keeps flying cheap for long time thrice daily, and maps the border with high def cameras.

Imagery can then be analyzed by intelligence; all of this is not more than 3 month project.

@Dazzler @Irfan Baloch

COIN aircrafts - Bader 250, Archangel, Super Tucano

https://www.iomax.net/archangel/

http://www.embraerds.com/super_tucano.html

http://aviationweek.com/dubai-air-show-2017/uae-s-latest-aircraft-introduced-calidus

 

[Advocate Pakistan]

Almost all of it will be smuggled out of Pakistan and the rest consumed there.

7% used in Afghanistan, almost half used in Iran. The rest anywhere from Pakistan to Africa, India.
But since 50% is consumed in Iran we can see, what British did to China is happening here too.
The WHO estimates that to meet world medical requirements the production needs to increase 4 times. They even introduced new seeds for better production.
Read the Wikipedia article on opium. A lot of useful information with citations.

 

[Tom M]

Well I must say I had to come back to give what is my opinion on your "who controls Helmand"

The U.S. was able to defoliate entire forests in Vietnam in the 1970s, they would have progressed even more today with today's herbicides being much less harmful to the fauna unlike agent Orange.
They have just created a facade of Taliban control over the heart of Golden Crescent while they are skimming the money for their proxies.
The Taliban have been following the Fatwa against its production since 2001.

Oh yeah. Taliban are true followers of every rule aka Fatwa, they can't do anything wrong, huh ???

Seriously my friend, which world are you living ???? I would say almost everyone involved in Afghanistan are cultivating Poppy, the Yankees might be smuggling it in tons to support their pharma industry back home rather than to give the money to someone else I guess.

 

[Advocate Pakistan]

Oh yeah. Taliban are true followers of every rule aka Fatwa, they can't do anything wrong, huh ???

Seriously my friend, which world are you living ???? I would say almost everyone involved in Afghanistan are cultivating Poppy, the Yankees might be smuggling it in tons to support their pharma industry back home rather than to give the money to someone else I guess.

Yes, they follow the Fatwa strictly when it is issued by their Ameer. They will do everything to make sure it is implemented.