For decades, Pakistan’s infamous spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) has been running “narco-jihad” with the target of using drug trafficking profits by Islamic militant and terrorist groups to fund their destructive activities, where ISI has been secretly collaborating with several entities – for example, Hezbollah in Lebanon to Boko Haram in Nigeria and Dawood Ibrahim – an internationally wanted gangster, mob boss, drug lord and terrorist designated by the United States and India as well as Dawood’s crime conglomerate named ‘D-Company’ for continuing large-scale narcotics smuggling and supporting terrorism. Pakistani ISI and Dawood have also connections with drug bosses in Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua and other South American nations. It also has collaborated with Syria’s deposed ruler Bashar-al-Assad for running multi-billion-dollar meth trade for years.

In July 2014, an investigative report was published by an Indian newspaper, where it said, Africa-based Boko Haram formed an alliance with Dawood Ibrahim’s proximity with Al Qaeda and Ibrahim’s tentacles in India for penetrating its narco-jihad inside India. Boko Haram, which drew global attention following abduction of non-Muslim schoolgirls succeeded in penetrating into India’s narco-distribution network with active support from Dawood Ibrahim and Pakistani ISI. Until 2014, Boko Haram had dominated at least seven states of North-Eastern Nigeria killing over twelve thousand innocent people with the mission of establishing a global Islamic caliphate.

Founded in 2002, Boko Haram has been using its well-oiled network in Africa and West Asia for drug trafficking to finance it activities. In India, this terrorist group has initially used Nigerians for pushing drugs while later Boko Haram has succeeded in establishing links with local jihadist and insurgency groups in India, through which it has been selling drugs.

According to counterterrorism experts, back in 2013, Dawood Ibrahim’s younger brother Anees Ibrahim made several trips to Lagos and subsequently met an Al Qaeda commander close to Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau. D-Company’s proximity with the two outfits indicated that militants have been riding on Dawood’s well-oiled network in India, Africa and South America to raise terror funds though drug trafficking.

Dawood Ibrahim, according to a 2010 intelligence report, was procuring drugs from Al Qaeda and in return pumping in huge sums in training and procurement of weapons for hardened terrorists in Taliban controlled camps in Waziristan. Besides Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Dawood was also financing Al Qaeda’s Indian version Al Qaeda al-Hind (AQAH) to carry out terror activities.

Intelligence suggests that Boko Haram and Al Qaeda control the cocaine route in Central Africa. They facilitate smuggling to various destinations in Asia and Europe with the help of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) and other criminal networks. Intelligence agencies suspect that Goa and Delhi’s cocaine racket allegedly controlled by Nigerians is being protected and supported by D-Company as part of the tacit understanding with the Al Qaeda and the Nigerian outfit.

And, Pakistani army and its spy agency ISI are very much involved in this transnational narco-network for decades. According to NATO’s study Narco-Insecurity, Inc, Islamabad has long claimed that terrorist finance seeped in........

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