Top officials of all law enforcement agencies attended the meeting and presented their performance reports on narcotics control. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
The Anti-Narcotics Force will work towards better cooperation among the law enforcement agencies to control drugs.
A decision to this end was taken at the sixth meeting of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) head at the ANF headquarters in Rawalpindi. ANF director-general chaired the meeting.
Top officials of all law enforcement agencies attended the meeting and presented their performance reports on narcotics control.
IATF Secretariat Secretary presented a report about the drugs seized during 2012.
The officials discussed matters related to alternative livelihood programmes for areas in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa that have traditionally depended on poppy growth. They also discussed measures taken against destruction of drug dens, establishment of treatment centres for addicts in government hospitals and jails and.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 2nd, 2013.
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