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India-Pakistan

War on Drugs: Admin cracks whip on poppy cultivators

2023-06-12

[GeaterKashmir] J&K Police is also taking the lead in the battle against the drug epidemic and is also at the forefront of efforts to eradicate the covert poppy growing that takes place throughout Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
A senior Police official said that illicit farming of poppy was mostly practiced in the south Kashmir districts of Anantnag, Pulwama, Shopian, and Kulgam.

"After 1989, hundreds of farmers in the southern areas began cultivating marijuana and poppy. Now with the improving law and order situation, the attention of the security grid has shifted towards narco-terrorism," he said.

The law enforcement agencies continue to combat the problem of illegal marijuana and opium growing at a local level. "Under the NDPS Act, we are arresting people found indulging in drug trafficking as well as cultivation of poppy," a Police official said.

NDPS Act prohibits people from production, manufacturing, cultivation, possession, sale, purchasing, transport, storage, and consumption of any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance.

According to a senior Police officer, "Drug traffickers will be dealt with harshly, and no one will be spared. According to the NDPS Act, we will begin attaching the property of narcos."

According to the National Survey on Extent and Pattern of Substance Use in India conducted by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment through the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi, there are approximately 10 lakh drug addicts in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Union Ministry informed the Parliament, citing the survey, that an estimated 108,000 men and 36,000 women had been found using marijuana in J&K, while 534,00 men and 8000 women had been caught up in the dragnet of opioids, and 1,60,000 men and 8000 women had been discovered using sedatives of various kinds.

The Ministry further informed the Parliament that in J&K, 127,000 men and 7,000 women had been seen using inhalants and that a significant number of men and women were addicted to cocaine, amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), and hallucinogens.

On April 19, during the inaugural event of the first National Conference of Anti-Narcotics Task Force, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that India would be drug-free by 2047.

A noble, if completely unrealistic, goal.

Posted by:trailing wife

#2 All of this "farming" may eventually bring about a Chinese response. Perhaps leaving all of that military hardware behind will soon be paying an unexpected dividend.

Unexpected by the extremely short-sighted Biden administration intelligence community of course. A region hegemony speed bump for China would have never been sanctioned.

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-06-12 07:31

#1 The 2022 opium crop in Afghanistan is the most profitable in years with cultivation up by nearly one-third and prices soaring, even as the country is gripped by cascading humanitarian and economic crises, according to a new research brief from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan – latest findings and emerging threats is the first report on the illicit opium economy since the Taliban, which assumed power in August 2021, banned cultivation of opium poppy and all narcotics in April 2022. This year’s harvest was largely exempted from the decree, and farmers in Afghanistan must now decide on planting opium poppy for next year amid continued uncertainty about how the de facto authorities will enforce the ban. Sowing of the main 2023 opium crop must be done by early November 2022.
“Afghan farmers are trapped in the illicit opiate economy, while seizure events around Afghanistan suggest that opiate trafficking continues unabated,” said UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly upon the survey’s launch.

Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-06-12 07:21

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