With the ferry across the Persian Gulf from Iran not leaving for a few days, we realized that there was no point pushing it trying to wake up early, so we decided to wait another day in Quetta to get ourselves together and have a look around. After taking it easy and reading books for most of the morning, we headed off to a nearby hotel with internet access to catch up on blogs.
Dave’s mate Ali had arranged for us to meet his friend Zohair who lives in Quetta that afternoon. He brought Fintan, Rhys and Dave out to dinner in a local Pakistani restaurant and we had an interesting chat about general life in the area. Zohair was even applying to study in Trinity College Dublin, where Fintan had been.
We were introduced to one guy who was quite knowledgeable about the opium and hashish situation in this region. It’s not far from here in the tribal regions of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan that the majority of Europe’s opiates and hashish is produced. He was telling us that here, for only €1.50 you could buy a block of hashish, the equivalent of which would cost about €400 in Ireland!
No comments:
Post a Comment