Srinagar, July 05:(KNS) Chairman people's Democratic Front (PDF) Hakeem Yaseen has expressed serious concern over growing drug and liquor abuse in Kashmir.
In a statement issued to KNS, on sunday Hakeem Yaseen said that the menace of drug addiction is spreading far and wide in Srinagar and across the valley especially among the youth including girls. He has urged the civil society and religious leaders to join hands with the administration especially police and health and medical departments to identity and unearth the racket behind the spread of drugs abuse. He said if " we fail to protect our youth from the dreaded drug abuse, the posterity will never forgive us. "
Hakeem Yaseen said that he drug addiction is widespread, fast-rising and is quickly taking the form of an epidemic in Jammu and Kashmir . He said startling revelations recently made by the concerned law enforcing agencies suggest that Heroin and contraband is coming in tons adding that siezer of a huge consignmt of 14 kg heroin worth Rs 65 crores from the frontier district kupwara recently was an eye opener for every sane kashmiri. He said civil society members and volunteers and religious preachers should constitute Survielence teams in their respective localities to keep an eye over the suspicious activities to protect youth from the influi o f drugs mafia . " As a social obligation, we have to launch a vigorous and sustained anti drugs campaign in every corner of jammu and kashmir to save our youth from devastation of this menace , " Hakeem Yaseen added.(KNS)