The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen
“When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” Alfred McCoy, author, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
A Soviet “Vietnam”
By far the most influential voice in the US Administration of President Jimmy Carter was his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski’s influence drew largely from the fact that he had one of the most influential patrons in the United States at the time. David Rockefeller, then chairman of the family’s Chase Manhattan Bank, one of the most influential banks internationally, had taken Brzezins
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PAKISTAN is a land inhabited by more than 200 million people. It is a nuclear power which has produced and preserved not only the weapon of mass destruction as a deterrent against any potential enemy, but has also produced complex guided missiles equipped with the latest software.
In the past, it has produced men like Abdus Salam, Agha Hasan Abedi and many others in different fields who were second to none and on a par with geniuses in the developed world.
Our doctors are recognised all over the world. The Covid-19 pandemic has struck the country like other countries and has taken more than 10,000 precious lives. A year has passed, but no lab or research institution in science and medicine in Pakistan has made an effort to develop any remedial medicine to treat this strange virus.