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| Drug trafficking between India, Pakistan | | Over 50 identified in J&K as 'live conduits' | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 16: A field intelligence unit of the government of India is learnt to have identified more than 50 indivduals belonging to Jammu and Kashmir as 'live conduits' of providing underground cells created in the State for the drug trafficking between India and Pakistan.
These indivduals also include some females and a handful of functionaries of the J&K Police and security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir. What has led to the unpublished instructions from the government for 'immediate' watch on some of these functionariesd is the report made available to an ofical agency in Delhi pointing out that out that three to five drug trafickers of Jammu and Kashmir have, in recent times, made quiet visits, numbering nearly half a dozen, to Manipur on this side of the Indian border with Myanmar.
The visits took place with government sleuths had come across evidence, pointing out that with the unrestricted trade between India and Myanmar, dangerous drugs has flowed into the country's northeastern region from across the border. It was in this context that he Union Home Ministry began to prepare a plan to help the Manipur government deal with the menace of drug trafficking along the international border.
A numberof Afghan fugitives have reportedly pitched themselves in a few places in northern Myanmar. They have carried with them their home-made laboratgories to convert opium into heroin. It is also reported that drug peddlars in Myanmar have favoured cultivation of additional acreage to enable them to get additional supplies of narcotics.
Foreign observers as welll as the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC), while providing a sensational account of India being used by the traffickers as a channel for smuggling drugs to other countries, have let it be known that India is developing into a 'major' source of drug trafficking in the world. While part of the stuff smugled outside is manufactured in India, the bulk of it is first smuggled from Pakistan and Afghanistan in the west and Myanmar in the east.
The authorites have admitted that the largest smugglers of heroin from India are Nigerians, followed by Indians and Sri Lankans. The United States Drug Enforcement Agency has already found Pakistan as the safe haven for drug pushers, posing a serious threat to the plans formulared by America and some countries in the West against drug trafficking. The US agency has made a pointed reference to the steppedup activities of drug traffickers and smugglers operating from Kashmir, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh, besides Pakistan.
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