Danny Gold
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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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January 2nd, 1991, two months after the election, the new government of Nawaz Sharif makes no move whatsoever to arrest the honorable member of parliament, and a Western drug official offers the bleakest quality assurance stat in the story.
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In his ear in Pakistan, nearly every drug suspect he'd helped put in handcuffs had eventually walked.
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In September of 1994, the Washington Post publishes a story in which the former
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Former and just opposed Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr.
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Sharif, says that back in early 1991, when he just taken office, two of the most powerful men in the country came to see him: the Army Chief and the head of the ISI, the notorious spy agency of Pakistan.
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And, says Sharif, they pitched him to fund the ISI's covert operations, the off-book wars, with large-scale heroin money.
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Sharif tells the post he was, quote, totally flat.
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And says he shut it down.
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It should be noted, he was out of office then, but he wins the prime minister's seat again in 1997.
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Both generals, of course, deny it.
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The State Department and the DA say that they have no evidence it happened.
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And Sharif, when he says this, is a deposed politician in kind of like a knife fight with the army.
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So he wants to throw throw dirt on them.
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You know, it's the exactly the kind of person who might invent a story like this, but also the kind of person who might finally be free to tell it.
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Eighteen years later in two thousand twelve, Pakistan Supreme Court rules in a long running case that the same two generals had in fact secretly funneled money to politicians to rig the nineteen ninety election for the alliance Sharif wrote to power on, but it wasn't drug money, according to them.
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It was uh it was about bank money.
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So it kind of corroborates the man on the mission, but not the heroin.
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But you know, there is a CIA commission study alleging the ISI did use heroin property.
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profits to fund its wars.
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So it goes back and forth.
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