Mir Khan's suicide

Home and Family — Radio Voice of Life presents.

Dear listeners of the “Home and Family” program, we hope you will accept the warm and loving greetings from me and my colleagues. We are happy to join you with another episode of the series “Devil’s Powder.” We must note that this is the final episode of the “Devil’s Powder” series that we are presenting to you. We hope you listen to it with a calm mind.

Dear friends, throughout this series we have repeatedly and emphatically insisted that heroin is a satanic tool used to destroy families and mislead our youth. If we look back at the history of narcotics in our homeland, we find that for many years the people of our country were familiar with chelim, naswar, cigarettes, opium, bhang and chars—but our people had no familiarity with heroin.

Before 1357 (1978), poppy plants were grown illegally in very limited quantities in the eastern regions of our country bordering Pakistan, such as Shinwar and its surroundings. However, Pakistan cultivated poppy in large quantities, especially in the province of Sarhad, where heroin‑processing factories were located.

During the years of war, these heroin factories were transferred from Pakistan to Afghanistan, because they provided the best source of income for warlords and the continuation of war.

Dear listeners, we now understand that war not only turned our country into ruins but also made its people addicted to heroin. A small child who once felt the gentle hand of his father on his head, and was just beginning to take his first steps in life, suffered greatly from the absence of a responsible father. The young generation of our nation—upon whom families placed all their hopes to gain education and shape the future of this country—after the war not only stained their hands with the blood of their fellow countrymen, but also became entangled in narcotics, including heroin.

A young person who should have played a vital role in rebuilding the country instead wanders the streets like a lifeless shadow, disconnected from himself and society.

For this reason, the staff of Radio Voice of Life, out of love for their countrymen, decided to produce and broadcast a program that reveals the deadly nature of heroin. We are therefore pleased that the “Devil’s Powder” series is one such program.

Dear listeners, remember that heroin always brings shame and pain. Shame before friends and relatives, and the pain of separation from society—the society in which we grew up. Heroin has mercy on none of us, for this satanic substance acts like a destructive infernal force.

Now, dear listeners, with the final episode of “Devil’s Powder,” we wish to briefly review the points presented in earlier episodes. But before that, let us listen to the story of Mir Khan’s family, the head of a drug‑trafficking gang, and see how heroin destroyed and scattered his family.

Dear friends, in the previous episode we heard that Mir Khan, who himself is the leader of a drug‑trafficking network, orders his men to kill his own son Dawood—because Dawood not only quit heroin but also began fighting against narcotics. Naturally, Dawood’s actions created an obstacle to his father’s heroin trade, and the business began to fail. So Mir Khan became furious and sent his men to eliminate his son.

When the gunmen opened fire on the sanatorium, its windows shattered and all the equipment was destroyed. A bullet struck his sister, Rahela, straight in the heart. Dawood, who loved his sister dearly, lost his composure. He stepped outside the sanatorium and shouted to his father’s men: “Tell my father, now that he has sacrificed his only daughter for heroin, let him sacrifice me as well.”

Hearing this, the gunmen removed their fingers from the trigger and chose to flee. When they informed Mir Khan of Rahela’s death, he could not control himself and rushed to the sanatorium. As soon as he turned the door handle to enter, Dawood saw him.

Dear friends, now we present to you the continuation of this story—the final episode of “Devil’s Powder.”