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Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 18: Security and intelligence agencies guarding the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir have been advised to intensify their operations against smuggling of opium and heroine from across the border. Sources said that non-state agencies in Pakistan and its occupied Kashmir have engaged trans-border smugglers for sending large consignments of the contraband into Jammu and Kashmir from where some portion was to be smuggled into other Indian states. Reports said that despite Afghanistan having become a war ravaged country there has been increase in the cultivation of opium which needs suitable market outside Pakistan.
According to these reports 20 per cent opium smuggled into Pakistan was being used within the country as the number of opium addicts in Pakistan has touched a new high during the last five years. And the non-state agencies are keen to smuggle 80 per cent of opium from Afghanistan to India and then part of it to the foreign countries. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that the annual revenue generated by Afghan opiate trafficking to and through Pakistan exceeds $1bn.Hence Afghanistan will have to continue with the smuggling of opium.
Accordingly the India troops have been asked to plug all the smuggling routes indicating that part of opium was being smuggled into Jammu and Kashmir through militants who keep on crossing into the state. |
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