"You have to remember that the items that have been stolen from the Museum or have been plundered, are not owned by only one person and usually not only by Afghans. It is usually one or two Afghans with five or six Pakistani partners. And the underground stolen art business in Pakistan is just as well organised and it is just as dangerous as the drug business. In fact, I have heard some people say that as far as the end-result is concerned, it’s even more profitable than drugs."
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Nancy Dupree (2000), on the stolen art market in Pakistan, as quoted in Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Archaeology in the Third World: A History of Indian Archaeology since 1947 (2003)
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