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Sino-Pak Drug Smuggling: Paramilitary troops to patrol border

Chairman Standing Committee blames deteriorating law and order situation for the decline in the tourism industry.

Express October 05, 2011 Less than a minute read

GILGIT: Paramilitary forces will be deployed at the Sino-Pak border to stop cross-border smuggling of drugs, Chairman Standing Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mehmood said on Tuesday.

He said that paramilitary forces such as the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) would be deployed at the borders to check the drug trade. Mehmood was on an official visit to G-B to monitor the law and order situation in the region.

The chairman said that there were indications of the involvement of ‘some foreign agencies in G-B’, and insisted the government should focus more on strengthening law enforcing agencies to counter the external threat.

He blamed the deteriorating law and order situation in the region for the decline in the tourism industry.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 5^th, 2011.