with China for provision of equipment,” he said.

Maj Gen Hanif said major problems plaguing the ANF concerned equipment and accommodation.

He informed the committee that 106 drug gangs, including 13 international gangs, had been busted this year with drug confiscations amounting to Rs550 million. Around 344 people have been prosecuted in 2015, while 426 were prosecuted in 2014; 540 in 2013 and 552 in 2012.

After the briefing, the Senate committee chief, Rehman Malik, said all television channels should devote 0.5 per cent of air time to raise awareness on the devastations of drug addiction. Malik was of the view that the drug business had a serious role in promoting terrorism.

Secretary Narcotics Control Muhammad Ghalib Ali said the government had framed various laws to curb the menace of drug trafficking,Monday, October 09, 2006

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The United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea. Hands up everyone who feels proud to be on that list.

Yes yes, I know, it's not comparing like for like. I mean, it's not like the US or the UK would launch an unprovoked attack on another country for entirely spurious reasons. The rest of the world are undoubtedly extremely happy that trusted, respected, peaceful nations like ourselves and our American masters allies have nuclear weapons. There's just no reason for people from other countries to think that British protestations are hypocritical.

Mrs Beckett rejected suggestions North Korea's actions had anything to do with military action against Iraq or that Britain's moral authority had been weakened by the