Pakistan Black Market Value: $5.97 Billion
World Average: $15.54 Billion
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Data on Pakistan
Tea smuggling in Pakistan
The Chairman of the Pakistan Tea Association stated that the government losses up to $4.5 Million a month in lost revenue to tea smuggling.
Source: “Tea smuggling causes revenue loss of Rs 382.66m,” Daily Times, January 7, 2010.
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- Tags: Pakistan | January 7th, 2010
Sex workers in Pakistan
There are an estimated 100,000 female sex workers in the Pakistani City of Karachi, with an additional 75,000 sex workers in the city of Lahore.
60 percent of prostitutes either work from home or walk the streets.
Source: AFP, “Pakistan sex workers on AIDS frontline,” Google News, November 30, 2009.
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- Tags: Pakistan, prostitution | November 30th, 2009
25,000 heroin addicts in the city of Karachi
In the Pakistani city of Karachi, there were an over an estimated 25,000 heroin addicts in the city in 2009.
Source: Waqar Hamza, “25,000 heroin addicts in City,” The Nation, November 15, 2009.
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- Tags: heroin, Pakistan | November 15th, 2009
Pakistan Opium Trade worth $1 Billion
The value of the opiate trade in Pakistan is estimated to be $1 Billion a year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Source: Associated Press, “UN: Afghan drug flow wreaks global havoc,” Google News, October 21, 2009.
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- Tags: heroin, Pakistan | October 21st, 2009
Illegal logging in Pakistan
Illegal logging activities creates losses of 65 Billion Pakistani Rupees ($782 Million) a year in Pakistan.
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- Tags: illegal logging, Pakistan | October 16th, 2009
Oil smuggling in Pakistan
The Pakistani Governments estimates that it losses between 5 billion to 6 billion Pakistani Rupees ($66 Million) to oil smuggling each year.
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- Tags: gas and oil smuggling, Pakistan | October 14th, 2009
Number of nuclear warheads in Pakistan
The Pakistani Military is estimated to have between 70 to 90 nuclear warheads.
Source: Associated Press, “Security of Pakistan nuclear weapons questioned,” Google News, October 12, 2009.
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- Tags: nuclear smuggling, Pakistan | October 12th, 2009
Not just Mexicans attemptint to enter US from Southern Border
Between 2007 and 2009, US Border Patrol Agents apprehended 2, 285 illegal immigrants from China attempting to enter the United States from the US-Mexico border.
In addition to the Chinese, those apprehend by Border Patrol included nearly a thousands people from Europe, 80 from Pakistan, 36 from Somalia, 19 from Yemen, 25 from Iraq and 26 from Iran.
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- Tags: China, human smuggling, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Pakistan, Somalia | September 26th, 2009

