Sindh, fed govt agree to control narcotics smuggling and peddling.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presiding over a high-level joint meeting of provincial and federal narcotics controlling agencies, especially attended by Federal Minister for Narcotics Shaharyar Afridi, has decided to launch intelligence-based operation against drug smuggling and peddling and sharing data of smugglers with each other and to control at borders so that this menace could be wiped out from the society.

The others who attended the meeting include chief secretary Mumtaz Shah, provincial Minister for Excise and Narcotic Mukesh Chawla, Advisor to CM Murtaza Wahab, DG Pakistan Maritime Security Rear Admiral Zak ur Rehman, Chief Collector Customs Wasif Memon, Deputy DG Rangers Brigadier, Deputy DG Coastguards Col Muzafar Hussain and other concerned federal as well as provincial officers.

The chief minister said that his government through provincial police and excise department has already launched an operation against drug peddlers so that ice drug, charas, hashish, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, opium, bhang, gutaka, mainpuri and mawa could not penetrate in the cities, particularly in educational institutions. 'Our Karachi...