KABUL (Pajhwok): Due to the government’s ineffective counternarcotics policy, most of the convicted drug traffickers are illiterate and poor individuals who support their families, not the high level drug kingpins who control the industry.
A survey conducted by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) shows individuals who have been imprisoned for drug-related crimes were driven to crime by poverty and may have no choice but to go back to it after release due to unemployment. Eight of each 10 were illiterate.
The survey was conducted during . . .
