Adding to Pakistans Misery A Heroin Epidemic

Adding to Pakistan's Misery, a Heroin EpidemicRaees Khan sleeps most nights on a pillow of dust. His home is a median strip along the busy Liaquadabad Road, across from a mosque. A little before dawn a loudspeaker announces the first call to prayer, a reminder to the holy that before Allah all men are naught. This noisy summons fails to awaken Mr. Khan. Though a Muslim, he does not pray five times a day. Other …

…could do electrical work. She brought her son a glass of water sweetened with red syrup, and they began to speak warmly to each other. As he left, he was able to wheedle the equivalent of $4. Not long after, he used his nose to empty another bag of heroin, forgetting his family again and retreating into his medicated self. He was soon nodding out, his eyeballs rising in his head like two balloons set adrift.