Drug Trafficking: A Non-Traditional Security Threat to National Security of Pakistan

Abstract

Drug trafficking is a prosperous deviance common to most of the modernized societies. It can be defined as production or movement of banned drugs at the international or intra-national level, the city level, or direct selling to users. Distribution systems of drugs are typically set in hierarchical systems. The non-traditional security issues are called dissimilar to traditional security threats and refer to factors other than armed and political conflicts , but can claim a threat to the sustainability and growth of an independent state and the human race in entirety. The drug problem in the world is mainly three fold, production, trafficking and abuse and it becomes more complicated when the three come together to form a deadly composition, which is what happened in the case of Pakistan. Today drug trafficking in the world is considered as the most lucrative business in which profits are much higher than the oil industry together and second only to the arms trade.