The Chinese government has issued a directive to the interior ministry to curb drug-smuggling from Pakistan to China. The Chinese government alleged that about 20 Pakistani officials were being interrogated on charges of drug smuggling from Pakistan to China and are in Chinese jails.
The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) efforts to counter the cross border smuggling failed to produce any result and dented Pakistan's image, the sources. Drug smugglers usually enter the European and Gulf countries by travelling in Thai and Korean airlines, they said.
ANF machines installed on the airports failed to screen the narcotics smugglers. Moreover, with connivance of the Airport Security Force (ASF) and other law-enforcement agencies, the ministry and the ANF remained unable to arrest narcotics smuggling, they said. Moreover, narcotics smugglers death penalty in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They hire poor people and use them as carriers. About 12 Pakistanis were arrested in Saudi Arab as heroin was the reason of their conviction, they said.