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Senate body condemns Indian minister`s statement

By Kalbe Ali 2016-12-15
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior and Narcotics Control on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the anti-Pakistan statement by the Indian home minister.

`We strongly condemn the statement of Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh wherein he has threatened to break Pakistan into 10 pieces. The statement validates Pakistan`s claim of Indian interference in its internal matters. We consider it against our national integrity and against the diplomatic norms.

`We demand our government to summon the Indian high commissioner in the wake of Indian home minister`s anti-Pakistan statement which is highly objectionable and condemnable.

We also urge the interna-tional community and the UN to take serious notice of aggressive statements by Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh,` said the resolution moved by committee chairman Senator Rehman Malik.

The committee members condemned the Indian leadership`s extremist and hardened stance in the region and alleged that the country was fanning discord with all its neighbours.

Drug addiction The committee was briefed by the director of the Federal Directorate of Education on the use of drugs in schools and colleges.

The director said that so f ar not a single case of drug addictionhadbeenreported in any government school in the Capital Territory.

However, Dr Wasim Ahmed, director securities of the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad,revealed that drugs were being openly supplied on the university premises.

Senator Malik asked if the university administration was aware of it.

Dr Wasim said the administration had already been informed about the growing uncontrolled crime in the university, but noacdonhadbeentakenso far.

`There is no boundary wall and encroachers have built their houses on the university land; these houses either belong to drug suppliers or their supporters,` he regretted.

He said the fact was that it was impossible for the university administration to curb use and supply of drugs as pouce and the departments concerned were not showing any interest in the matter despite repeated complaints.

`I am shocked to know about this and lack of security; in such a dangeroussituationeveryinstitutionis within the range of terrorism,` Senator Malik said.

He directed Interior Secretary Aijaz Ali Khan to immediately set up a police post in the university and deploy a reserve police force to act against people involvedin supplying drugs.

He also asked the narcotics secretary and the director general of the AntiNarcotics Force (ANF) to launch a combing operation in the university against drug suppliers.

The committee decided to hold a meeting in the first week of January and invite all provincial home secretaries, education secretaries, IGs and officials of the ANF to brief it on the measures they had taken so f ar to control use of drugs in educationalinstitutions.

The Private Schools Regulatory Authority and NGOs working on drugs control were also asked to attend the meeting.