KARUNA SHINSHO, CNN ANCHOR, ASIA TONIGHT: Pakistan is fighting a growing problem with drugs. The country's own dwindling supply is being replaced by shipments from abroad, leading to an ever increasing number of addicts. Glen Van Zutphen has this report.</s>GLEN VAN ZUTPHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Another batch of seized drugs goes up in flames, but it's not really making a difference in Pakistan's drug problem. The country was major source of heroin in the 1980s, but that's been largely stamped out. Now the problem is being imported.</s>AZIZ AHMED, PAKISTAN NARCOTICS CONTROL DIV.: Everybody know it has been a victim country now and a transit country for drugs. We have fortunately moved away for the last seven or eight years from being a producer country, and we have played our role in the interdiction of drugs and the cooperation of -- with other countries in the fight against this menace.</s>VAN ZUTPHEN: The heroin is coming in from neighboring Afghanistan. Analysts say drug money is fueling Afghanistan civil war and a porous boarder makes shipments hard to stop. Pakistan estimates it has now four million addicts, mostly in Karachi. Most drug addicts are poor. They develop the habit out frustration with unemployment and other social problems. And the ready supply makes it even more difficult to stop.</s>MEHMOOD HASAN, HEROIN ADDICT: We tried our best, but cannot get rid of the habit. When it comes in front of you one cannot resist it. While heroin is available in the country you cannot stop people from quitting. No one could escape it while it's available in this country.</s>VAN ZUTPHEN: So the number of addicts continues to climb with no solution in sight. Glen Van Zutphen, CNN.
Pakistan Fighting Growing Problem with Drugs