Drugs in schools: CADD refutes ‘misleading’ report

Ministry had launched an investigation into 422 schools

ISLAMABAD: The minister of state for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry has said that there were no reports of drugs being used in any school of the capital.

Referring to a recent report submitted by a non-governmental organisation in the Senate Standing Committee on Interior and Narcotics Control last month about drugs being used in schools, the minister said there was no truth to it. Terming the report as ‘misleading’, Chaudhry said that the government rejects the facts and figures provided by the NGO.

While conceding that the ministry had launched an investigation in the 422 schools which the Federal Directorate of Education runs in the capital, the minister said that they found no drugs or narcotics being used on campuses.

(TRANSLATION BY ARSHAD SHAHEEN)

Published in The Express Tribune, November 23^rd, 2016.