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Pakistan Black Markets

Filed under: Asia

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Tea smuggling in Pakistan

Filed under: Asia

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.

Sex workers in Pakistan

Filed under: Asia, Vice

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.

25,000 heroin addicts in the city of Karachi

Filed under: Asia, Global Drug Trade

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.

Pakistan Opium Trade worth $1 Billion

Filed under: Asia, Global Drug Trade

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 in Pakistan

Filed under: Asia, Environmental

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.

Oil smuggling in Pakistan

Filed under: Asia, Environmental

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.

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.

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.

Source:  Pierre Thomas, “Exclusive: FBI Says Corrupt Border Officials Accepting Bribes Expose U.S. to Terrorist Risk,” ABC News, September 24, 2009.

Illegal drug trade in Pakistan

Filed under: Asia, Global Drug Trade

The amount generated from illegal drug trafficking in Pakistan is estimated to be $4.8 Billion (300 to 500 Billion Pakistan Rupees).

Source:  Ikramul Haq, “Drug trafficking & black economy,” Pakistan Observer, July 6, 2009.

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