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Opium trade finances Taliban: UNODC
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, according to a United Nations report released in London today. This year has witnessed a decrease in the amount of land [...]
Continue reading...Customs officials seize 372kgs drugs
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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 press statement issued on Wednesday. The raid was conducted by officials of the Directorate General Intelligence and Investigation of the FBR [...]
Continue reading...Karzai’s brother denies drug trade links
Monday, October 6, 2008
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 Provincial Council and the president’s brother, denies any ties to Afghan drug traffickers, despite claims to the contrary from some [...]
Continue reading...Senate committee for strict action against spurious drugs
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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 drugs constituted by the Sub-Committee under the Secretary Ministry of Health comprising representatives of Provincial health and police departments, Ministry [...]
Continue reading...Battling drug addiction in Afghanistan
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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 a country of about 30 million people. When Rahim Ahmedy was an Afghan refugee in neighbouring Iran, he and his friends [...]
Continue reading...Govt set up DRA to drug production licenses
Friday, June 6, 2008
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 question hour today that government is making its utmost efforts to control quality of drugs. She said so far [...]
Continue reading...Health Secretary for strict action spurious drugs traders
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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 meeting was convened on the directives of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior to eliminate trade of spurious drugs in [...]
Continue reading...Stringent measures to curb drug trafficking
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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 views while presiding over a meeting held here today to discuss measures to eliminate drug trafficking in the country. The [...]
Continue reading...Big advance in war on Afghanistan poppy
Saturday, April 26, 2008
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 country’s 34 provinces would be declared “opium poppy free”. More than 90 per cent of the heroin consumed in Britain [...]
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