ANF organised an interaction with international partners in drug control at Anti Narcotics Force Academy, Islamabad on Tuesday. ANF presented an overview of its efforts towards drug control. Director General ANF, Major General Khawar Hanif also expressed his views on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion, DG ANF emphasised that drug menace is a global problem; hence international partnership is considered essential for its eradication. He expressed his concerns over increased cultivation of poppy crop in the region. He apprised that due to poppy crops in Afghanistan, Pakistan suffered the most, in spite of being a frontline state against narcotics. He told that effective measures to curtail drug cultivation in Afghanistan require more international focus. The inability of world to control drug cultivation and just concentrating on drug trafficking, has affected the world at large.-PR