{"id":85263,"date":"2026-02-20T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85263"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:03:14","slug":"how-pakistan-has-become-opium-capital-of-the-world-with-afghan-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/how-pakistan-has-become-opium-capital-of-the-world-with-afghan-expertise\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pakistan has become opium capital of the world with Afghan expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com\/indiatoday\/styles\/medium_crop_simple\/public\/2025-09\/afp_20080612_del193583_v2_highres_pakistandrugs.jpg?VersionId=U.vSRIHYHKpSBhi0eB8NEjY7sMvKDum9&amp;h=f7284eea&amp;size=750:*\" alt=\"A substantial portion of opium produced in Pakistan, and transshipped through the country, also makes its way into India.\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"jsx-ace90f4eca22afc7 jsx-73334835\">Sprawling poppy fields in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan have overtaken those in Afghanistan, which produced 80% of the world&#8217;s opium.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/pakistan-opium-capital-poppy-cultivation-balochistan-afghan-farmers-taliban-ban-2022-terror-funding-global-heroin-market-2785171-2025-09-11\"> Read More<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sprawling poppy fields in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan have overtaken those in Afghanistan, which produced 80% of the world&#8217;s opium.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/opiun.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85265,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85263\/revisions\/85265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}