Multan Police have intensified operations against organised drug trafficking networks operating across urban centers and targeting educational institutions, arresting more than 1,330 suspects, including over 15 women, during the past five months. According to official data, over 1,300 cases were registered under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act (CNSA), with a significant number booked under […]
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Probe uncovers foreigners’ involvement in network run by drug queenpin ‘Pinky’
Karachi Additional Inspector General (AIG) Azad Khan on Friday said that police uncovered foreign involvement in Anmol alias Pinky’s drug network, saying some Lahore-based women were also involved in the ring. The top cop made the revelations during a press conference alongside DIG Crime and Investigation Amir Farooqi and DIG West Irfan Baloch, where he […]
Memon condemns point scoring on arrest of drug queenpin
Sindh Senior Minister and Provincial Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit, Sharjeel Inam Memon, said that all assembly members should remember that the government has launched a strict campaign against drugs. He said he had earlier made it clear on the assembly floor that every member should consider themselves a minister for anti-drug efforts, […]
Crackdown on drug peddlers continues
Under the vision of Punjab Chief Minister Ms. Maryam Nawaz Sharif for a “drug-free, healthy, and safe Punjab”, the operations of the Punjab Counter Narcotics Force (CNF) are continuing with full momentum. Within just one day, the CNF conducted seven successful operations in Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Faisalabad, arresting dangerous drug peddlers and recovering 7.8 kilograms […]
Mandatory drug test bill for schools tabled in NA
The Anti-Narcotics (Amendment) Bill 2020, was tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday with the aim of curbing drug use in educational institutions through preventive legislation and stricter enforcement measures, Express News reported. The bill, tabled by MNA Sehar Kamran, proposes making drug use among students a punishable offence and linking university admissions to mandatory […]
Govt to launch National Drug Use Survey
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Narcotics Control and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is all set to launch the National Drug Use Survey Pakistan 2022-23 on Wednesday with the financial support of U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). In 2012 and 2013, UNODC in collaboration […]
Rangers arrest accused involved in terrorism, drug peddling
Karachi: Pakistan Rangers Sindh and Police in a joint intelligence based operation here in Chanesar Goth, Mehmoodabad on Thursday arrested an accused involved in terrorism, police encounters, killings and drug peddling. According to a Rangers spokesman, the accused identified as Farooq alias Rootha during initial interrogation confessed that he remained involved in drug business from […]
Liberia arrests 2 after $100 million of cocaine is seized
Liberian authorities acting on U.S. security intelligence have arrested two foreigners and are searching for two more suspected of trying to smuggle $100 million of cocaine seized in the West African country, officials said Tuesday. The estimated value of the drugs is one-fifth of most of Liberia’s post-war annual budgets since the country’s civil war […]
US revises strategy to combat monkeypox
WASHINGTON: US revises strategy to combat monkeypox. US health authorities on Tuesday authorized a new procedure for injecting the monkeypox vaccine that should make it possible to inoculate more people with the same amount of the drug, at a time when doses are running short in the country. The Food and Drug Administration also authorized […]
Philippines: Nearly 8,000 police punished over drug killings
MANILA: A Philippine official says thousands of police officers have received administrative punishments, and more than 2,000 were dismissed, for wrongdoings during raids where drug suspects were killed. Communications Assistant Secretary Marie Rafael Banaag told a news conference Thursday that 14,724 policemen were investigated for their involvement in police drug operations that led to deaths […]