Minister for Narcotics Control and SAFRON Shehryar Khan Afridi has said that the government was consulting with private and public sector educational institutions to ensure drug screening of students, faculty members and staff and drug tests would be conducted for them.
Addressing a meeting of owners of private and elite schools, Shehryar Afridi said that the government was working for making drug free Pakistan under the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
“Educators are chosen for educating new generations. After mother’s laps, schools are the institutions to educate, groom and train the children to transform into productive citizens,” he said.
Says govt working for making drug free Pakistan under vision of PM Imran Khan
Afridi said that schools owners need to employ best practices of drugs control in educational institutions.
“We have developed a database of international drugs and terrorism criminals using over 250 sources.
We have to take effective, proactive initiatives to choke down drugs trade,” he added.
The minister said that the private schools should invest in developing rehabilitation centers for treatment of addicts of their schools under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
“We will discourage practice of expelling students falling to drugs. ANF has developed its own rehabilitation centres in Islamabad, Karachi and Sukkur and ANF uses its own resources. We are framing a new law under which drugs rehabilitation centres in government hospitals too,” the minister added.