Smugglers need to face immigration officers for inspection, but they can be turned blind eyed by bribing them with a hefty amount of money. This is called the cycle of drug trafficking. It is still ongoing, and in order to cease the cycle at once, it requires tons of efforts to take down.
Smugglers need to face immigration officers for inspection, but they can be turned blind eyed by bribing them with a hefty amount of money. This is called the cycle of drug trafficking. It is still ongoing, and in order to cease the cycle at once, it requires tons of efforts to take down.
Smugglers need to face immigration officers for inspection, but they can be turned blind eyed by bribing them with a hefty amount of money. This is called the cycle of drug trafficking. It is still ongoing, and in order to cease the cycle at once, it requires tons of efforts to take down.
Issue: How to combat drug trafficking through out Asia. Country Assigned: Pakistan 1) General information about the issue. Drugs are invented for the long time ago. Most of them are useful in medical way. Still, some people abuse them as a recreation drug. As they keep using drugs, they are started to get addicted, and suddenly to change as a junkie. As a junkie, an individual needs more drugs, so the one need to call a buyer to get them. And the buyer needs to get supplies from smugglers who transport across from the boarder or local region. In addition, smugglers need to face immigration officers for inspection. However they can be turned blind eyed by bribing them with a hefty amount of money. Hence, everything will be normal as usual. This is called the cycle of drug trafficking. It is still ongoing, and in order to cease the cycle at once, it requires tons of efforts to take down. In fact, there is a problem in decreasing the activity of drug trafficking; Afghan-Pakistan border is very vast, at 2430 km long. Some part of boarder is insecure due to the lack of officers, protection, and holes for entering-exiting these two countries. In spite of heavily affording to protect the boarder, some immigration officers are corrupted. Hence that creates a hole for letting smugglers get in and out the country with ease. Furthermore, they try to enter a low protected security zone, as there is low chance to get caught. 2) Country specific information regarding the issue. Pakistan is a vulnerable country in drug trafficking. It lacks of well-trained enforcers, including immigration officers. Although, the government have commenced a training program for the enforcers, yet ineffectively train to certain region. An example, FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas), this organisation is responsible for administering locals, immigration, and emigration. In fact, FATAs officers have stationed for designated hours. Yet, during the off-duty hours, that is the opportunity for smugglers to operate drug trafficking. Even more, in Ghulam Khan, this is the FATAs headquarter, and the only checkpoint that proves to be the strongest one in Pakistan. Nonetheless, Chaman, Tahan, and Peshawar are the weakest checkpoint; especially Tahan, which has low-to-none
quantities of immigration officer to check out, and it is
an inaccessible area for FATA to operate immigration. As the distance between Ghulam Khan and Tahan are very far away, it takes long time to come down for the mission, and it is too late to stop the drug trafficking in that region. Speaking of Chaman, and Peshawar, they are quite near the FATAs HQ. Even though, the FATA officers are not assigned in a high number at Kabul River and Budni Nala: the river is isolated and hard to detect illegal actions thought out the area. Also, at that area, flood is occasionally occurred, and thus it makes even more difficult. 3) Examples of issue in or involving your country. According to UNODC, other than Thailand, approximately 40%, Pakistan is a transit and destination country for opirates produced in Afghanistan Chaman, Ghulam Khan, and Torkham are situated to Afghanistan. Heroin smugglers smuggle 20 tons of heroin from Afghanistan to sell Pakistani junkies. In 1980s, the action made people became addicted, and abused heroin excessively. Wise smugglers usually have small, mobile laboratories, use for producing heroin, transporting across the boarder by disguising as a ordinary mobile, and keep doing the same thing consistently. Immigration officers often miss the illegals, because of the lack of observing skill, in which it proves its usefulness in identifying objects or flaws. However, as the officers receive well trains, smugglers alternatively come up a new plan, to ensure that they will not get arrested in the future. Some smugglers, instead using a mobile, they smuggle drugs by sailing on the river for instance. 4) What are solutions that able to solve the issues. Pakistan is considered to have people addicted to heroin in a larger number, larger than Afghanistan, the most heroin producer in the world. Buyers mostly get the good from that country, and transport to Pakistan across the boarder. A first fine solution of the problems, reinforcing immigration officers to isolated, unsecured, and overlooked zones. The zones are the gateway for smugglers to smuggle drugs across to the destination, and the officers have a hard time to detect the smugglers at the areas.