Yeh Laanat Hamai Lag Gai Hai: Addiction, Masculinity and Violence in Quetta, Balochistan

Ali Mehdi Zaidi was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted fieldwork with the Hazara community in Pakistan in the Summer of 2019. Zaidi "sought to place the problem of drug addiction within Quetta in a broader socio-political context connecting it to the multiple violences in the recent past - in particular, the proliferation of drug production in Afghanistan after 9/11 and the recent spate of ethnic/sectarian violence within Quetta."