Proposal

2. FINAL ASSIGNMENT
“Documentary Proposal”
GROUP MEMBERS:
Asim Akram 14014057008
Mehwish Ashraf 15016057017
Nazish Ashraf 14014057005
PROGRAM: MA Media and Communication
SUBJECT: Introduction to Broadcast Media
RESOURCE PERSON: Mam Madeeha Javed

3. SUMMIT ON: 30-06-2014
TOPIC DRUGS
TITLE Drugs Menace in Pakistan
DURATION 15 Minutes
FREQUENCY Once and for all
CHARACTERS Interviews of Researchers & Heads of ANF, Some Infected People
& Staff of Rehabilitation Center
VISUALS Interviews of Researchers & Heads of ANF, Some Infected People
& Staff of Rehabilitation Center
AUDIO Some Sad Music Related to Drugs
MAIN IDEA /
PURPOSE
To through some light on how quickly this evil of drugs is spreading
in Pakistan? What are its deadly effects? How it is injurious to
health? How it’s destroying our society and our new generation?
Our main purpose is to highlight this social issue and to make
people well aware of its devastating effects.
RESEARCH
Use of stimulating drugs like cocaine is on the rise in Pakistan.
Despite having a relatively small number of cocaine and crystal
meth users in the country, smuggling of cocaine into Pakistan has
gone up by around 1,000 percent in recent years. These disclosures

4. have been made in a report released by the UN Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC). The report titled ‘Drug Use in Pakistan 2014’ was
launched recently.
The report states that although Pakistan has been declared "poppy
free" since 1999 and heroin is not produced anymore in the country,
40 percent of the heroin produced in Afghanistan is smuggled to the
rest of the world via Pakistan, especially Karachi. And a large
portion of this ends up in local markets and is used by Pakistanis.
The report presents horrible figures regarding use of narcotics and
drugs in Pakistan, especially Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad which
has been described as the "hub" of drug smuggling in the region.
A source of mine has told me, although cocaine is not prepared in
Pakistan, around 13,000 tonnes of it is being smuggled into the
country from Latin American states. Similarly, use of crystal meth is
also increasing among Pakistanis with more than 20,000 people
estimated to have used it last year, he claimed. Approximately six
percent or 6.7 million people in Pakistan used any controlled
substance or drugs last year. And of these, cannabis, or charas and
alcohol are the most commonly used drug, with a prevalence among
3.6 percent of the population, equivalent to four million users, the
UN official disclosed. My source told me that drugs market in
Pakistan was spreading with each passing day despite the fact that
largest amount of drugs seized anywhere in the world were done by

5. the Pakistani law enforcing agencies.
Pakistan is a transit country for the drugs produced in Afghanistan
and like Mexico and some other Latin-American states, it is paying
heavily as usage of drugs and violence related to drugs smuggling is
growing in Pakistan. Mentioning Karachi, he said, drug dealers were
part of the worsening law and order situation in the largest city of
Pakistan and feared that if smuggling of drugs via Karachi was not
controlled, it would have to face deadly violence on the pattern of
Mexico where hundreds and thousands of people are annually killed
in drug wars. Drug traffickers can’t afford interception so they don’t
hesitate in taking lives or otherwise it would be their own lives at
stake in the deadly drug trade. In Sindh, around 1.7 million or 6.6
percent of the province’s population use one or other types of drugs.
The most alarming fact about drugs use in Sindh is the growing
prevalence of HIV/AIDS among injectable drug users in Sindh. A
report says that 42 percent of the drug users in Sindh are infected
with AIDs, which is only 13 percent in the rest of the world.
Federal Secretary, Narcotics Control Division, Muhammad Ghalib
Ali downplayed the use of cocaine in Pakistan, saying although
percentage-wise, the usage of cocaine and other stimulants appeared
to be increasing, the number of users was still quite negligible.
“Drugs reach anywhere in the world where there is a market and in
Pakistan, a small section of affluent class is using cocaine, and so it

6. is reaching to them through illegal means. We are taking steps in
this regard and now incoming flights and persons are also being
checked”, he added. He admitted that synthetic drugs were pouring
into Pakistan and claimed that use of drugs was increasing among
our new generation.