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The Anti-Narcotics Force (Urdu: انسدادِ منشیات فورس, romanized: insidād-e-munaśśiyāt fors, reporting name: ANF) is a federal executive bureau and a paramilitary force of the Government of Pakistan, tasked with combating the narcotics smuggling and use within Pakistan.
Cannabis is the most used drug. The rate of injection drug abuse has also increased significantly in Pakistan, sparking fears of an HIV epidemic. A 2013 report on drugs by the United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime (UNODC) stated that almost 6.7 million people are taking drugs in Pakistan. The report also revealed that people from the age of ...
On 1 December 2012, Australia introduced ground-breaking legislation and the world's toughest tobacco packaging warning messages to date. [15] All marketing and brand devices were removed from the package and replaced with warnings, only the name of the product remains in generic standard sized text.
"Just Say No" was an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S.-led war on drugs, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no. The slogan was created and championed by Nancy Reagan during her husband's presidency. [1]
Under this policy drug use remained low; there was relatively little recreational use and few dependent users, who were prescribed drugs by their doctors as part of their treatment. From 1964 drug use was increasingly criminalised, with the framework still in place as of 2014 largely determined by the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act.
This is an indirect effect of the drug, [39] not strychnine or any other adulterant. Additionally, strychnine is one of the most bitter substances known, with a detection threshold of 1 part per million, well below toxic levels. [39] Finally, the dangerous dose of strychnine is too high to be contained in a blotter square. [39]
Bulbulay (Urdu: بُلبُلے, English: Bubbles) is a Pakistani family sitcom series about an unconventional Pakistani family of four. [1] [2] The show is directed by Rana Rizwan, written by Ali Imran and Saba Hassan, and produced by Nabeel, who also plays the lead character of the show.
Chashm-e-Baddoor (Persian, Urdu: چشمِ بد دور, Hindi: चश्म-ए-बददूर) is a slogan extensively used in Iran, North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye (which is called nazar in the region). It is a Persian language derivation which literally means "far be the evil eye". [1]