ISLAMABAD: The Standing Committee on Narcotics Control has been informed that Gutka (popular sweet chew) and Sheesha (perfumed smoking pipe, added with fruits and other delicacies) does not fall into the category of narcotics, hence …

New York: The opium industry is largely funding the Taliban’s war budget and is a major source of revenue for criminal groups and terrorists in Afghanistan despite becoming less important to the country’s overall economy, …

Islamabad: Directorate General Intelligence (DGI) and FBR Customs officials have seized charas and opium weighing 372 kgs and taken possession of a truck being used to smuggle the drugs from Peshawar into Punjab, says a …

NEW YORK: Assertions that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother is involved in the country’s booming heroin trade have U.S. officials worried, according to The New York Times Sunday. Ahmed Wali Karzai, chief of the Kandahar …

ISLAMABAD: The Sub-Committee of Senate Standing Committee on Interior met at the Parliament House under the chairmanship of Senator Sardar Mohammad Jamal Khan Laghari. The committee met to discuss and review the report about spurious …

Afghanistan is the world’s biggest producer of heroin and opium. But less well known is the country’s drug problem. According to the most recent UN figures in 2005, there are about one million addicts in …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate has been informed that the government would establish Drug Regulatory Authority to issue drug production licenses and ensuring quality of medicines. Minister Incharge for Health Ms. Sherry Rehman informed the House during …

ISLAMABAD: Secretary Health Mr. Khushnood Akhtar Lashari reiterated the commitment that strict action will be taken against those involved in the spurious drugs trade. He stated this while presiding over high level on Wednesday. The …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Narcotics Control and Women Development, Nazar Muhammad Gondal has said that stringent measures would be taken to curb drug trafficking and eliminate the menace of drug addiction. He expressed these …

KABUL: Opium production in Afghanistan is expected to fall significantly this year, with British and Afghan anti-drug efforts finally taking hold following record harvests. Afghan officials said they expected that an increased number of the …