Ayub Afridi (drug lord)

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Ayub Afridi (Pashto: ایوب اپریدی, Urdu: ایوب افریدی; c. 1930–1939 – 24, November 2009) was a Pakistani drug smuggler and tribal politician.^[1] He is considered to be the primary founder of the widespread drug trade (particularly heroin) in Afghanistan.^[2] There are a variety of speculations that Afridi, following his close collaboration with the CIA for Operation Cyclone against the Soviet Union, was approached by the United States as a part of an effort to gain easier access to Afghanistan and the semi-autonomous tribal areas of Pakistan after 9/11.^[1]