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Pakistan,
Iran, Afghanistan to check narcotics smuggling
Thursday November 25, 2010 04:38:03 PM,
Awais Saleem, IANS
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Islamabad:
Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan signed an agreement here Thursday
on a joint plan of action to curb smuggling of narcotics in the
region.
The agreement was signed under the aegis of United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Speaking at the agreement-signing ceremony, Pakistan's federal
secretary for narcotics control Tariq Khosa said that "drug
smuggling is a common problem for all countries in the region and
a joint strategy was very much needed to combat this challenge".
"We have agreed to set up control centres at the borders, initiate
joint crackdown against smugglers and share information besides
other points," he said.
Afghan Minister for Narcotics Control Zarar Ahmad Usmani said that
the agreement "will help check narcotics being smuggled from
Afghanistan into neighbouring countries".
UNODC executive director, Yury Fedotov, said: "Terrorists in the
region have established close links with smugglers involved in
drugs trade and the money is being used in terrorist activities
and other crimes in Pakistan and Afghanistan".
Afghanistan has always been a fertile country for producing
several kinds of drugs and the export of narcotics through illegal
means is a big source of revenue for militant outfits in the
country. The porous borders with Pakistan and Iran are used to
carry out smuggling of drugs worth billions of dollars all over
the world.
(Awais Saleem
can be contacted at ians.pakistan@gmail.com)
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