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Pakistan’s maritime drug seizures consistently highlight low-level couriers and fishermen, while the brokers who coordinate the trade remain untouched. This pattern exposes a deliberate omission protecting the middlemen who organize shipments along the Makran coast, leaving regional nations to face the fallout of an unbroken narcotics network.

Pakistan’s narcotics trade isn’t driven by “stateless dhows” but by a broader grey maritime economy along the Makran coast. Narcotics move through the same networks handling fuel smuggling, illegal fishing, and migrant flows — a system tolerated within heavily securitized zones. The result: a stable, organized supply chain launching from Pakistani shores.