Amritsar’s youth and drug addiction
High percentage of youth in the Indian city of Amritsar are drug addicts.
Published On 6 Jan 2010
Amritsar is one of India’s most magnificent cities – home to the stunning golden temple … but a staggering seventy per cent of the city’s young people are drug addicts.
Amritsar’s proximity to the heroin trail out of Pakistan and Afghanistan makes it a prime target for drug traffickers.
Al Jazeera’s Prerna Suri reports.