Danny Gold

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4,199 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Sep

Danny Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Underworld Podcast · The Heroin Warlord of Pakistan: Armed Tribesman, the CIA, & a Smuggling Empire · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

Now, the Khyber Pass runs about thirty some miles from the edge of Peshawar in Pakistan, up through the Spingar Mountains and down into Afghanistan, towards Jalalabad, and eventually Kabul. voice-verified

For most of recorded history, it has been the land route between Central Asia and the subcontinent. voice-verified

Persians came through it, Alexander the Great, as I mentioned, came through it, the Mughals, the Sikhs, the British, everybody came through the Khyber, and almost everybody passed. voice-verified

paid for the privilege because the past was never really it's never really belonged to any empire. voice-verified

It belongs to the tribes who live on it. voice-verified

For centuries the arrangement under whatever flag was nominally flying was basically the same. voice-verified

The tribes let you pass and you make it worth your while. voice-verified

And if you want the road, you pay the road. voice-verified

And at the top of the pass, near the Afghan border, sits a town called Landi Kotal, which is where our guy is from. voice-verified

And Afridi is not just a name, it's a tribe. voice-verified

One of the big posture tribes of the Khyber region. voice-verified

And there are millions of Afrides. voice-verified

I think there's also Sean giving you a little little softball here, a famous cricketer named Afridi, right? voice-verified

Please don't. voice-verified

It's the same plan, so I guess whatever however related you want to say that. voice-verified

When Pakistan is created in 1947, it inherits the British system for this region more or less intact. voice-verified

And the British system was: we do not govern this place. voice-verified

It's lawless, you could say, but I guess the tribes have laws. voice-verified

And the tribal areas along the Afghan frontier were basically autonomous agencies. voice-verified

Pakistani law for most of the story, it applies like literally on the road itself and like not off the road, not much past its shoulders. voice-verified

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