Anti Narcotics Force (ANF), Sukkur observed World Anti-Narcotics Day against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking and reiterated its commitment to fight against narcotics and create greater awareness about drug abuse.
Major Tariq Ali Butt, Deputy Director ANF told participants of a seminar, organised on the occasion, that ANF was not only trying to eradicate poppy cultivation, counter availability and use of narcotics but was also trying to rehabilitate and treat the drug addicts.
He said that so far various courts in connection with drug smuggling had sentenced about 65 persons to death. These cases were in the appeals stage, he added. Besides the seminar a walk against narcotics was also organised here by Human Development Society (HDS) to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse.
Many students, lawyers, journalists, workers of human rights organisations and elected representatives participated in the walk. The participants marched through city's main bazaar, carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans against drug abuse. Speakers on the occasion discussed hazards of narcotics use and stressed the need for a greater role of all the stakeholders to rid society of drug menace.
They said the drugs had not only brought a bad name to the country internationally but also caused an irreparable loss to human resources. They said millions of youths had lost their social life, honour and even lives due to drug addiction. They said the menace could be checked once society realised its moral duty and role.
They urged participants to join hands against drug addiction and its smuggling so that elements involved in this inhuman business could be checked. Speaking on the occasion, HDS chairman Advocate Shakeel Ahmed Jameel said his NGO, working for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts, had so far treated over 200 addicts in the district alone and it was committed to expand its operation in other districts of the interior Sindh.
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