ABC Home | Radio | Television | News | Your Local ABC | More Subjects… | Shop

Foreign Correspondent Foreign Correspondent
Your passport to the world of international journalism.

Tuesdays at 9:20pm on ABC TV.
Foreign Correspondent
World Music
Tape Sales
World Music

 

Pakistan : Pashtun
People in Hash Den


Listen to: Hash Den


Smoking hashish and opium may not fit our idea of a respectable religious celebration. But for the Pashtun tribes whose livelihood depends on the poppy, this is an ancestral, even spiritual, pursuit.

 


Foreign Correspondent's Dominique Schwartz visited Northern Pakistan's Nihag Valley - home of some of the country's most militant poppy growers.