Also, was there a kind of Pablo escobar or cali cartel in afghanistan or east asia ?
Yes Khun Sa
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khun_SaHe was the Escobar of the heroin. He controlled with a small but dangerous army the plantagions between thailan and Myanmar. Was so powerful that between the late 1970s and 1983 even Gaspare Mutolo and the Sicilian Mafia bought his heroin plus the Cia asked to the government to buy all his dope for stop the overdoses in the States.
