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Paktika drug menace grips more than 600 women

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SHARANA (Pajhwok): Civil society addicted to addicts has increased besides men.

Paktika’s Milma Civil Foundation head, Yaqoob Khan, told a gathering in Sharana, the provincial capital, that the population of drug addicts was on the increase in Paktika where drugs were not cultivated.

He alleged some government officials had a hand in smuggling, purchasing and selling of drugs. Activist questioned how police could prevent the menace of drugs when many of them were themselves dependent on drugs. He asked the government to fire addicted police and . . .

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