Danny Gold
speaker
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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And one of the men, if not the man, controlling this is Ayuba Fridi, trucking impresario.
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And the tribal areas become this industrial park.
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Opium comes over from Afghanistan and refineries, actual heroin labs sprout in the tribal areas where, again, Pakistani law does not operate.
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A study we've got in a book chapter on the Pakistani trade counts between one hundred and two hundred heroin refineries in the Khyber Agency alone by nineteen eighty eight.
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The DEA's 1994 Intelligence Report on Southwest Asian trafficking describes Landi Kotal in this era, Afridi's hometown, as an open opium market town.
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Product on tables, wholesale, retail, come one, come all.
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And also, you've got hash pressed into kilo bricks stamped in gold, other bricks sealed in aluminum wrappers printed with a ketchup logo or a French dried fruit logo, actual condiment branding as camouflage.
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Even in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan where everyone is illiterate, branding is important.
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I mean, this is like a Don Draper anecdote he tells a hippie who berates him for working and advertising, you know?
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That's really good.
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That's solid too.
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I'm I'm I'm I'm batting a thousand right now, bud.
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A few more numbers.
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The number of heroin addicts in Pakistan in nineteen eighty at the start of this is effectively like zero.
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It's a rounding error.
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By the middle of nineteen eighty two, thirty thousand.
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And by nineteen eighty eight, the estimates run from one point two to one point seven million Pakistani heroin addicts, plus another three quarters of a million regular Hashidis uses.
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Opium dense in the mountains, cheap heroin in the alleys of Karachi and Lahore.
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Did I say it right that time?
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