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Drugs production and trafficking in Afghanistan

In a country awash with weapons and drugs, where the global system of exchange - the currency - has been devaluated to such an extent that it has been more lucrative to use opium as a form of barter, Afghanistan has become one of the poorest countries in the world. Yet the most stupendous growth in Afghanistan has been of the narcotics industry.
Print Book, English, 2007
Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2007
xxvi, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9788182742772, 8182742773
123377603
"Issued under the auspices of Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation and Central Asian Studies Programme, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi."
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Central Asian Studies Programme, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)