Opium trafficking in Pakistan is a $1 Billion industry.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 11: Regions Under Stress, June 2010.

According to the newspaper The Times, 19 of the 25 cases of international kidnapping of British citizens reported to the Serious Organised Crime Agency in 2009 took place in Pakistan. The 19 cases were an increase from the 10 cases reported in 2008.

Source:  Sean OiNeill, Adam Fresco, and Russell Jenkins, “Sahil Saeed ordeal exposes growth of homeland kidnap ‘trade’,” Times, March 22, 2010.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Illegal logging activities creates losses of 65 Billion Pakistani Rupees ($782 Million) a year in Pakistan.

Source:  Animesh Roul, “Gems, Timber and Jiziya: Pakistan’s Taliban Harness Resources to Fund Jihad,” Jamestown Foundation, April 30, 2009.

The Pakistani Governments estimates that it losses between 5 billion to 6 billion Pakistani Rupees ($66 Million) to oil smuggling each year.

Source:  “Govt losses Rs5-6 billion annually as sale of Iranian petrol in Pakistan soars,” Pak Tribune, December 11, 2006.