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Middle East
- Pakistan is in the middle of a terrible epidemic
of illicit drug use. In 1982 the official estimate of heroin users
in the country was 30,000. In 1991 the number rose dramatically
to 1,000,000. It topped 3,000,000 by 1998. As of July 2003, in
a country populated by 140 million people, it is estimated that
there are 4,500,000 addicts"
- NRI's account for nearly 4.5 million of the over
20 million NRI population spread across the world and contribute
almost $6 billion worth of remittance to India out of the total
$18 billion that the Indian exchequer receives.
- Saudi Arabia executed 55 people as of July 2005,
compared to 35 in 2004 and 53 in 2003
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