Rawalpindi: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) registered 137 cases and arrested 163 persons across the country during its special campaign, launched a year back against drug peddlers and to stop proliferation of drugs in educational institutions.The ANF teams conducted operations and recovered over 30 kg heroin, 15.4 kg opium, 2500 kg hashish and other drugs worth millions of rupees during the period.Director ANF, Riaz Soomro talking to APP informed that two pronged strategy was being pursued regarding halting of proliferation of drugs i.e. drug demand reduction and drug supply reduction while awareness activities against drug abuse were also conducted during last year to save the youth from the menace of drugs.He informed that 69 cases were registered in Punjab province and the ANF teams netted 80 drug peddlers, 19 cases were registered in KPK and 23 persons allegedly involved in supplying drugs to education institutions were nabbed, 14 cases were registered in Sindh on arrest of 13 accused while 14 FIRs were lodged in Balochistan where 16 drug peddlers were sent behind the bars.He informed that the Force managed to round up 32 drug suppliers in North area where 21 persons were arrested. He said, the educational authorities were advised to establish their Internal Monitoring and Enforcement System.Cultivation of sources, informers and acquisition of actionable intelligence in educational institutions has also been beefed up while coordination and liaison with schools, colleges, universities/institutions has been increased to check inflow of drugs among the students.Moreover, areas around educational institutions are being monitored on regular basis to stop/counter sale of drugs to students by peddlers/suppliers.The authorities also launched campaign/crackdown against drug peddlers involving police under Inter Agencies Task Force (IATF) forum while intelligence network of ANF has been expanded inside main cities to locate and hunt drug smugglers/peddlers.The students and heads of various institutions from all over the country were also invited at drug burning ceremonies every year.Mass awareness about harms of drugs amongst students, teachers and various administrative staff was launched under which lectures were delivered in schools, colleges and universities while visits of students and teachers were also arranged to ANF outfits for awareness.Moreover, the number of active youth ambassadors from different educational institutions throughout the country had crossed 5,000 mark under a programme launched to promote mass awareness and highlight emerging trends of drugs abuse, especially amongst students.The ANF had launched Youth Ambassador Programme few years back which provided platform for projecting young talent to channelize role of youth, thus serving humanity and society.
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