The drug problem
WHILE Islamabad Police chase low-level peddlers, the capital’s kingpins have quietly taken their operations online. According to officials, drug dealers have turned their illicit businesses digital in response to a wide-ranging crackdown, using modern technologies to connect to clients and enlisting beggars to work as couriers. In the first of this year, police say they nabbed 1,002 drug dealers and seized about 400 kg of synthetic and organic drugs, along with thousands of bottles of liquor. Alarmingly, of the total arrests, 102 were........
