Twitter handle @rvaidya2000 posted a image of a book which stated how the Premier of a Country was involved in drug trade. I will reproduce the text not from the book from the source where it was mentioned.
One of the culprits, Hamid Hussain was not only the vice president of Government owned Habib Bank, but was as close as a son to the wife of General Zia ul Haq. He handled Zia's account and used banking channels to launder drug proceeds. The most startling revelation that confirmed Zia's drug connection was the case of one of his ADCs, whose name was not disclosed. The ADC concealed heroin in 100 precious lamps to be gifted by General Zia to the delegates at a special session of the UN General Assembly. General Zia suddenly changed his programme to travel via Iran and Iraq. In the process of shifting his baggage one of the lamps broke spreading heroin at New York Airport. Apparently the customs official checked all the lamps which were filled with heroin and seized them.
So the hunt was to know source of the statement stated in the book, as the book name was not clear in the tweet.
Google search helped me to find the source:
1. Narco-Terrorism and India's Security By Kshitij Prabha, Associated Fellow, IDSA
2. Contemporary Pakistan: Political Processes, Conflicts and Crises by Veena Kukreja and Mahendra Prasad Singh
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