Jammu Kashmir Peoples Justice Front (JKPJF) organized a drug de-addiction awareness program at Hygam, Sopore area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district in which students, locals and parents in large numbers participated. The drug menace is spreading among youth like wildfire which has engulfed a large chunk of budding youth of Kashmir and it has become imperative to control it before it’s too late.
The program was aimed at to create awareness among the youth and members of the society so that the very fabric of Kashmiri society can be saved from this curse. In order to create awareness among people, JK Peoples Justice Front has been organizing such awareness programs from time to time. Among dignitaries were SSP Sopore, ADC Sopore and Drug De-addiction Specialist Dr.Fayaz Ahmad and Chairman JKPJF Agha Syed Abbas Rizvi, Master Syed Shamsuddin, Moulana Abdul Kareem, Syed Agha Mujahid, Social Activist Mohd Ibrahim, Dr. Kamran and others were present on the occasion who spoke about the drug addiction and its consequences. SSP Sopore while speaking on the occasion appealed people and parents to come forward so that the drug menace could be eradicated from the society.
He said, “The J&K Police has been working tirelessly to control and eradicate the drug menace from the society but police can’t do anything alone, the society has to come forward and cooperate in this matter, only then it is possible to overcome this curse”. ADC Baramulla Zahoor Ahmad Raina while speaking on the occasion said, “The drug menace has spoiled the very fabric of our society, there is a need to control this menace lest it will hit our society especially youth”,.
In his address, Agha Syed Rizvi, chairman JKPJF said that the armed militancy in J&K is decreasing but a new form of militancy is on rise, in the name of Drug Terrorism, harbored by our neighboring country. “It is a conspiracy hatched by the neighboring country to involve Kashmiri youth and make them drug addicts, for their vested interests. But, we are in a position and very well capable to foil the attempts of this anti-Kashmir agenda of neighboring country,. We as a peaceful society won’t allow these fringe elements to succeed”, he added.
He appealed the people of Kashmir to stay away from drugs and if anyone is affected by it, must approach the rehabilitation centers for de-addiction.