Drugs addiction is worst social evil: Manzoor Khan Afridi

PESHAWAR, June 05 (ONLINE): Excise and Narcotics Control Haji Manzoor Khan Afridi has said that drug addiction is the most heinous social evil which has rapidly infiltrated in our youth and is eating away all their talents.

Therefore, he said, the time has come to pay full attention to both the spread and treatment of drug addiction and to protect the new generation from the menace of narcotics. He was talking to a delegation of elite from the Shiro Jhangi area of Peshawar that called on him under the leadership of former provincial minister Asif Iqbal Daudzai at his office in Civil Secretariat Peshawar. The delegation eulogized the people friendly steps of the provincial government, especially the minister of Excise in respect of waging Jihad against narcotics.

They while appreciating the sincere efforts on anti-narcotics, assured of full cooperation at the public level to make this important initiative a success story in all respects.Haji Manzoor Afridi said that his Excise and Narcotics Control Department has launched a comprehensive campaign against drugs with three major goals, including blocking the sources of supply and demand of all kinds of narcotics, the effective prevention of the use of drugs among the youth as well as treatment and rehabilitation of the addicts.

He said that unfortunately the youth suffering from the curse of drugs consider themselves to be healthy, but in reality they are terminally ill and their God-given abilities fade with time and eventually they die in very miserable conditions.The provincial minister said that his department is working diligently to achieve the above three crucial goals, wherein the cooperation of people of all schools of thought, including the religious scholars, has become indispensable.

In this way, he appealed to the public, especially parents and teachers, not to treat drug addicts as untouchable and stop avoiding them, but consider them more important and focus on their treatment and recovery to make them useful citizens of the society once again.

The delegation also apprised the minister of some of their other problems of their respective areas, to which he assured of proper resolution, while on the pinpointing of some other important problems, he contacted the relevant authorities on the spot and issued orders for their immediate solution.