{"id":8413,"date":"2020-12-08T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2020-12-08T19:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:17:56","slug":"new-anti-drug-policy-on-the-anvil-to-save-the-youth-pm-inaugurates-new-anf-headquarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/new-anti-drug-policy-on-the-anvil-to-save-the-youth-pm-inaugurates-new-anf-headquarter\/","title":{"rendered":"New Anti Drug Policy on the Anvil to Save the Youth -PM inaugurates new ANF Headquarter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurating the newly built Anti Narcotics Force Headquarters building in Rawalpindi, 07\/12\/2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rawalpindi;<\/strong> 07 Dec 2020 –\u00a0Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Anti-drug policy is at the anvil to save the youth from the drugs. He said that\u00a0\u00a0corruption and narcotics are cancer of society. Government would devise a robust strategy to check drug abuse among youth and save the future generations.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
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He was addressing the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) officers at ANF headquarters in Chaklala, the Prime Minister said relevant ministries, including education and health, would be taken onboard to chalk out the policy in view of growing trend of drug abuse at educational institutions.<\/h3>\n

PM inaugurated the new building of the headquarters and visited different sections of the building to get briefing on the achievements of this force in curbing the menace from the society. Minister for Narcotics Control Mr Azam Sawati was also accompanying him.<\/h3>\n

Director General ANF Maj Gen Arif Malik gave a detailed presentation to the Prime Minister about the working of the force and network in the country.<\/h3>\n
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Director General Anti Narcotics Force Major General Muhammad Arif Malik briefing the Prime Minister about the operations of ANF. Rawalpindi, 07\/12\/2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PM said he would call a meeting next week to discuss ways to address the challenge of narcotics on urgent basis. \u201cThe government will run an anti-drug campaign across the country and the entire nation will fight this menace as a united force,\u201d he added.<\/h3>\n

\u201cIt is unfortunate that the society recognises those people who earn money illegally through corruption and drugs,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cOnly police or law enforcement agencies alone could not fight against the crimes but the whole society needs to fight against the crimes.\u201d He said when corruption spreads in a society only the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) or justice system could not stop it until and unless the whole society considered it bad.<\/h3>\n

Citing statistics, Khan said more than 70 million young people in Pakistan had fallen prey to drug addiction, which was a dangerously high number. \u201cWhenever a person becomes a drug addict their entire family suffers. If there are 70 million drug addicts in the country it means that 70 million families are struggling,\u201d he said. Showing his concern, he said the people did not realise the gravity of the situation but drug addiction was spreading like cancer in society, adding the problem had now penetrated into schools and colleges.<\/h3>\n
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Federal Minister for Narcotics Control Azam Khan Swati briefing Prime Minister Imran Khan during his visit to Anti Narcotics Force Headquarters Rawalpindi, 07\/12\/2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He said as per information provided by inspector general of police, the situation of the use of synthetic drug \u201cice\u201d by school and university students was alarming, as it could leave a disastrous impact on their education and health.<\/h3>\n

He stressed the need for raising awareness among masses, particularly youth, about the negative impacts of drugs in personal and social lives.\u201cWe have to save our next generations from the shackles of drug abuse,\u201d said Khan, expressing concern over high number of cases of drug addicts reported at schools and universities. Khan said narcotics acted like a \u201csilent killer\u201d due to its damage inflicted upon the addicts and the society.<\/h3>\n

The Prime Minister said the government would enhance the flow of resources required to counter menace of drug abuse in the country.He lauded the services of ANF in eradicating drug abuse, saying: \u201cThe efforts of an institution alone could not produce results since the efforts put in by society itself act as biggest deterrent\u201d.<\/h3>\n

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Rawalpindi; 07 Dec 2020 –\u00a0Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Anti-drug policy is at the anvil to save the youth from the drugs. He said that\u00a0\u00a0corruption and narcotics are cancer of society. Government would devise a robust strategy to check drug abuse among youth and save the future generations. He was addressing the Anti-Narcotics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[418,731,59,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8417,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}