Danny Golds
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1,181 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Danny Golds’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is the finale, if you will, of the three-parter on Ayub Afridi and Stuart Newton.
So the arrest of Newton in June 1988 did not slow this operation down.
It amputates the American end mid-deal, right?
They were talking about sending another package over, but the tribal areas kept shipping product.
conflict ever.
Yeah, bad things happen.
So, while Newton sat in Otisville looking at 40 years, that's the prison in upstate New York, while the trial played out in Providence, and while marshals hauled off the cars and mansions and the Swiss accounts drained into the U.S.
Treasury, Aya Bafridi was at the absolute peak of his power.
The DEA's own cable traffic describes his organization in the language that bureaucracy saves for things it genuinely cannot stop.
the single most prolific heroin and hashish trafficking operation in Pakistan.
The king of Khyber heroin is running the biggest drug operation in South Asia out of a fort with his name on the gate.
The DEA knows it.
They know where he is.
Pakistan's government can't touch him or won't.
And he has a seat in parliament, if you guys remember.
And the empire has gone legit on the surface the way empires do.
His partner, Iqbal Baig, the Lahore broker who set up the Newton deal, now owns cinemas.
He owns a textile mill and a pizza restaurant, which I'm sorry, as someone who maybe hasn't eaten pizza in South Asia, but has had a lot of pizza in Asia and the Middle East, there is absolutely no way that pizza isn't god-awful.
Probably covered in black olives and corn, just disgusting.
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