Danny Gold

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

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

into Pakistani Baluchistan. voice-verified

Pakistan, which at the start of nineteen seventy nine has essentially no heroin industry, imports one overnight the way a town imports a factory. voice-verified

And the Iranian side still. voice-verified

There's separatists all over the place there. voice-verified

Also of note, like in in the 70s, you have uh Turkey banning opium due to US pressure. voice-verified

That happens in 1972. voice-verified

And and a drought hits Burma and Thailand's Golden Triangle. voice-verified

So those are two of the major producers, and what you get is a wide open market. voice-verified

The second and bigger thing that happens in in 1979 is Christmas Eve. voice-verified

The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. voice-verified

Three million refugees come over the passes into Pakistan. voice-verified

And the Soviets are just hammering the country of Afghanistan, brutally destroying the infrastructure, the economy, agricultural crops, everything. voice-verified

Mind you, it was already a poor country that needed serious development and aid. voice-verified

But here you've got rural farmers had grown pistachios, almonds, grapes, pomegranates, even cotton. voice-verified

But that's kind of hard to keep going in the middle of a relentless bombing campaign where farms are destroyed. voice-verified

Livestock killed, all that. voice-verified

Part of the Soviet strategy was to starve the Mujahideen and their supporters, so they deliberately went after crops and these things. voice-verified

Mujahideen, the fighters that were from Afghanistan, uh I think all very religious, right? voice-verified

Or would did that just mean fighter at that point? voice-verified

were and some yeah, yeah, yeah. voice-verified

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