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Will the Taliban's takeover impact the regional drug trade?

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OPINION: India is a licit producer of opium, but UN agencies have alleged extensive leakage in the grey market. What needs to be seen is whether the Taliban takeover of Kabul impacts the drug trade in the region, writes Sanjay Kapoor.

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau personnel - mandated to target drug mafia - recently got into a cruise ship sailing to tourism destination Goa and picked up dozens of travelers for ostensibly consuming drugs. One of them, Aryan Khan, was the 23-year-old son of India’s most loved and successful film star, Shahrukh Khan.

This bland reiteration that suggests that India is a transit country flies in the face of the mountain of evidence that is piling up suggesting an increase of drug use in India. Other probe agencies have discovered many bogus shell companies that got this consignment from Afghanistan- much before the Taliban took over Kabul. Even the 3000 kg container was destined to a city in Southern India- thousands of Kilometers away from the port where this opium derivative landed.

 

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