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Merchants of death switch to online drug deals as BSF, police step up the heat in Punjab
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With the BSF and state police mounting pressure, drug traffickers in Punjab are switching to online deals via WhatsApp to sell drugs to addicts.
Dealers...
Deobandi Taliban effect: Afghans turning to crystal-meth drug trade to stave off starvation
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A devastating humanitarian and economic crisis has forced millions of Afghans to find new sources of income, media reports said.
A growing number of them...
Overt connections of states with drug cartels
Ever since the beginning of war in Ukraine in February 2022, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been actively cooperating with Ukrainian intelligence in increasing...
Punjab drug smugglers switch ops to Karachi, Iran seaports as BSF tightens vigil on Pak border
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The drug smugglers active in Punjab have switched their strategy and started getting large quantities of contraband using containers via sea while some quantities...
Burqa crimes: Women caught supplying ganja in Azamgarh jail
UP Police have arrested 4 women - Shabnam, Madina, Shahnaz and Shabana - for supplying cannabis (ganja) inside Azamgarh prison. They would carry the drug inside...
Two drug trade kingpins held in Punjab, 10 kg heroin, drone seized
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Striking a blow to the trans-border narcotic smuggling networks, the Punjab Police has busted a drug smuggling cartel with the arrest of two kingpins...
Kerala Government’s veiled help for PFI continues
On 19 December, the Kerala High Court of Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar asked the state government the reason for the delay in attaching...
Pak’s narco-terror push drives rampant drug abuse in Kashmir
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Along with sponsoring terrorism, Pakistan has also been pushing drugs smuggling into Kashmir. The security agencies have red-flagged the neighbouring country recalibrating its hybrid...
Punjab Police recover 10 AK-47 assault rifles
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Punjab Police have arrested a few drug smugglers and recovered 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 10 foreign-made .30 bore pistols in the past three...
B’desh intelligence officer shot dead by Rohingya drug smugglers on Myanmar border
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An Bangladesh Air Force officer, working at the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), was killed in a gunfight with drug traffickers along the...