In the past, Pakistan has made countless promises to the Kashmir territory it occupies, but none have ever been kept. Pledges to build infrastructure, educational, and healthcare facilities as well as to grant it complete “Azadi” (independence) from its grasp have always turned out to be empty promises. While its territory of so-called “Azad Jammu-Kashmir” is parading the streets at home shouting slogans like “We want freedom, Pakistan Army go back,” same Pakistan is busy selling the dream project of “freedom and self-determination” to the Kashmiris in India.
It is widely known that the Pakistani government has disregarded the fundamental human rights of the occupied Kashmir region, according to a report by IANS. The purpose of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), which is still being defended to the world through a web of lies and deceit, is to win sympathy for a cause. Since the beginning, “Azad Kashmir” has solely contained the word “Azad.” The rest of it is a string of misfortunes, neglect, and oppression. The vicious cycle of drug misuse, unemployment, and poverty is well-known around here.
90% of suicides in Pakistan are blamed on the colonised state of Gilgit-Baltistan, which is referred to as the “suicide capital” of Pakistan.
ISI creates drug addicts-
Pakistan’s ISI has implemented a strategy to render the young of PoK ineffective by driving them into a drug misuse spiral out of concern that they could foil its wicked agenda. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the smuggling of drugs (such as heroin, crystal meth, etc.) into nearby nations like Pakistan has become prevalent. PoK is becoming a growing drug centre as a result of the open drug trade. Drugs are readily available and marketed for affordable prices despite the country’s inflation. It is not impossible to consider this circumstance to be a planned tragedy.
A chemical substance called “Methamphetamine” or “Ephedrine” is used to make the intoxicating narcotic known as “Crystal Meth” (sometimes referred to as “Ice”). Afghanistan produces significant amounts of ice using the widely cultivated “Ephedra” plant. According to a recent BBC Urdu report, there are numerous small factories in Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled regions that are set up to turn ephedra into crystal meth. They were a sizable portion of their income. Since the Taliban seized power, these factories are suddenly sprouting up on every corner of the city.
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The neurological system is harmed by ice. A person’s activity level doubles, they become less focused and incapable of making decisions, and they rapidly lose sleep and weight. The individual starts to have a violent sexual orientation. Ice was allegedly utilised as a form of medicine for “mujahideen,” according to a dealer from the Poonch border region who had participated in previous acts of jihad in Afghanistan and Kashmir. It would render a person emotionally, mentally, and physically numb. This is why suicide bombers are given it: the user may face any difficulty after having it. In a separate incident, a well-known marijuana merchant in the Rawalakot area acknowledges that young people prefer ice and heroin over marijuana since it is less expensive and provides a greater level of intoxicated pleasure. Ice used to cost upwards of Rs 8,000, but currently, it only costs between Rs 2,000 and Rs 5,000.
Vehicles carrying weapons and drugs move via Pakistan to PoK “illegally” through “jugaad” because of the strict law and order that Pakistan maintains in the high-traffic areas of Rawalakot, Hajira, and other suburban villages and towns. Ice can be brought in mineral water bottles after being melted, which is the most popular and convenient method of doing so. And this particular jugaad appears to be well known by all. Why? A drug dealer from the nearby village of Tharad confirms that police give the drugs to him and other members of this trade. Police officers receive 50 per cent of the ice sales. In Pakistan, the police themselves struggle with drug use.
Afghani drugs in PoK-
Due to Pakistan’s strict narcotics policies, Afghanis are permitted to enter PoK without showing any form of identity. Pakistan provides them with valid identification cards and legal licences once they arrive in PoK.
Why won’t they act to reduce drug misuse and suicide rates in PoK if the government and the courts are the issues? The University of Poonch students claim that police officers blackmail and demand large sums of money from students from whom drugs are found. Young people are drawn to radicalism by ice. In PoK, the number of cases of student murder, extortion, kidnapping, and torture is rising quickly. The same is true of terrorism; drug usage is directly correlated with the recruiting of terrorists. Additionally, it comes with the territory that young, innocent blood is shed. According to reports, more than 64% of young people who join terrorism are dead within a year.
Heroin flooded the public’s veins during the recent proxy conflict that was organised in the guise of the Kashmir jihad. The educated youth of PoK who formerly protested the Pakistani government became heroin addicts. There is a plot to render the youth helpless. Because the gradual eradication of the resistance is in the best interests of Pakistan’s wealthy and influential circles, hardly one talks about PoK. The Pakistani Army’s unrestricted use of force in PoK combined with the Taliban Emirate’s reinstatement in Kabul is a formula for doom.
