Summary Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Taliban’s income comes from drugs business.
Addressing the concluding session of a two-day Regional Ministerial Conference entitled “Counter narcotics, enhancing cooperation for effective coordinated and sustainable narcotics control,” Malik said that US $ 58 billion narcotics trade was going on in the world.
He said that the cooperation among opium producers, mafia and Taliban had detrimental impact on the security of both Pakistan and Afghanistan. He said that there was a need to have a long term collaborative strategy rather than sporadic destruction of poppy fields.
He said that Pakistan was fighting against the narco-terrorism with its meager resources. “Our nation has suffered losses both in term of human lives and material – 80 billion dollars loss in economy and over 45,000 people have been killed in terrorist activities,” he added.
