ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior has directed the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) and the police take action against drug supply within the premises of Quaid-e-Azam University.
The committee that met under the chair of Senator Rehman Malik also asked the Secretary Interior to help the police and ANF in launching this operation. The committee is already hearing the matter of excessive use of drugs in the educational institutions of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) following a report of a non-government organization (NGO) in this connection. However, the government has refuted this claim.
The direction of the committee came after Dean Quaid-e-Azam University Dr Waseem Ahmed informed the meeting that every kind of drug was being supplied in the campuses. He said that the students used intoxicant tablets of Lahore made having price range of Rs5,000 to Rs15,000 besides liquor, hashish and heroine. The dean further said that disciplinary committee of the university had fined some students and the police had been informed to take action. “The reason behind the continuous supply of drugs in the campuses is due to the absence of any boundary wall around the university,” he said. Dr Waseem requested the committee that a police picket should be established within the university premises to stop supply of drugs there.
The chairman directed that the cameras of Safe City Project should also be installed within the university premises and also asked Islamabad Mayor Sheikh Ansar Aziz to financially support the university for building up the boundary wall.
