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Drugs
worth $130 mn seized in Pakistan in three years
Thursday April 14, 2011 07:20:44 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Narcotics
worth over $130 million have been seized in Pakistan in the last
three years, a federal minister told a visiting US delegation
Thursday.
Haji Khuda Bux Rajjar, minister for narcotics, said that opium
produced in Afghanistan was a threat to Pakistan, according to
Xinhua.
At present 90 percent of the world's opium was produced in
Afghanistan and of that 44 percent was being trafficked through
Pakistan, the minister said.
At a meeting held at Pakistan's ministry of narcotics control,
William R. Brownfield, secretary for the Bureau of International
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the US, assured Pakistan
that the American government would financially support drug
treatment and rehabilitation centres in the country.
Pakistan last year destroyed 95,000 kg drugs, the minister told
the delegation.
Officials have now proposed the idea of selective fencing at
certain points of the international border with Afghanistan that
would help decrease the flow of drugs.
Pakistan would now ask Afghan authorities to share real-time
information and intelligence regarding production and seizures of
drugs and drug-making chemicals.
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