. Srinagar, July 5:- Chairman people’s Democratic Front (PDF) Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen has voiced serious concern over growing drug and liquor abuse in Kashmir and called upon the civil society groups in Kashmir to protect youth from falling into the trap of this deadly menace.
In a statement issued here on sunday Hakeem 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 said that the 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 seizure of a huge consignment 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, volunteers and religious preachers shall have to rise to the occasion and constitute surveillance teams in their respective localities to keep an eye over the suspicious activities to protect youth from the influence of drugs mafia . ” As a social obligation, we have to launch a vigorous and sustained anti drugs campaign in nook and corner of Jammu and Kashmir to save our youth from devastating effects of drugs menace , ” Hakeem added. Hakeem also made a fervent appeal to the parents and guardians to keep an eagle’s eye over the day to day activities of their wards spend that they are timely protected from the couches of drugs mafia. He said drug addiction was the most disastrous weapon to destroy a community from its roots and brings moral degradation, vulgarity and sickness in the society. He said though the drug abuse has widened it’s tentacles to an alarming proportion but ” Better late than never ” Civil society should give a wake up call and involve religious preachers, community volunteers and parents in their respective localities to forcefully fight out the menace of drugs addiction.
