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Newsbrief:
DEA
Head
Urges
Fatwas
Against
Drugs
in
Pakistan
2/18/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/375/deafatwa.shtml
Who knew that DEA administrator
Karen Tandy was an Islamic religious scholar? Pakistanis were no doubt
surprised to hear the American drug fighter weighing in on the holiness
(or lack thereof) of opium production last week, but that's just what Tandy
did during a visit there designed to keep the Pakistanis on their toes
in the American drug war.
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Karen
Tandy -- Islamic scholar?
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As reported in the Pakistan
Daily Times, Tandy called on Pakistani religious leaders to issue a fatwa,
or religious decree against drugs. "Narcotics are against the teaching
of the Holy Quran," she said in remarks carried on a Pakistani radio station.
"Pakistani ulema [Muslim religious scholars] should give fatwas against
narcotics and support the anti-narcotic effort," she said.
While in Pakistan, Tandy
met with President Parvaez Musharraf and told him that Pakistan could not
be certified as opium-free. But she lauded Musharraf and the Pakistan Anti-Narcotics
Force for their cooperation in the struggle. "The US and the ANF are very
strong partners in the war against narcotics. They are sharing intelligence
to stem the flow of poppy and heroin from Afghanistan to Pakistan," she
said. And it better stay that way. When asked what the US expected from
Pakistan in the drug war, she replied, "continuation of a very close collaboration."
Dictator-turned-President
Musharraf, for his part, wanted more money. "There is a need to reinforce
our efforts by greater technical cooperation from the international community,
particularly the United States, in the form of provision of surveillance
and intelligence equipment for the ANF as well as by improving its ground
and aerial mobility," he said.
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