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Authorship, title and date

The article is unsigned. It is attributed to the United Nations Secretariat on the strength of the Bulletin's own bibliography of 1954. UNODC's archive page gives "Pages: 1 to 7" and a creation date of 1 January 1953 for issue 1 of that year, which is the date the record carries. The archive prints the title in capitals of each word, The Surprising Extinction of the Charas Traffic; the record uses sentence case.

Garda charas and Gardez

The article quotes India's annual reports for 1935, 1941, 1942, 1944 and 1945 on garda charas, "of inferior quality", smuggled from Gardez in Afghanistan and from the tribal territory. The report for 1944 names Gardez as the place of production. Neither the reports nor the article say where the word garda comes from.