Military manpower—availability:
males age 15-49: 33,496,712 (1999 est.)
Military manpower—fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 20,519,762 (1999 est.)
Military manpower—reaching military age annually:
males: 1,553,310 (1999 est.)
Military expenditures—dollar figure: $2.48 billion (FY98/99)
Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 4.4% (FY98/99)
Transnational Issues
Disputes—international: status of Kashmir with India; water-sharing problems with India over the Indus River (Wular Barrage)
Illicit drugs: producer of illicit opium and hashish for the international drug trade (poppy cultivation in 1998—3,030 hectares, a 26% drop from 1997 because of eradication and alternative development); limited center for processing Afghan heroin; key transit area for Southwest Asian heroin moving to Western markets; narcotics still move from Afghanistan into Baluchistan Province
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