Tag: Drug

No drug testing since June 30

Due to the dysfunctional Central Drug Testing Laboratory (CDTL), the quality of all the drugs purchased or donated for the vertical health programmes and...

Drug smuggling bid foiled, 60 kg hashish, 8 kg opium recovered

Police on Saturday claimed to have foiled an attempt to smuggle huge cache of drugs and recovered 60 kilograms of hashish, eight kilograms of...

Two more suspended for drug stealing

The Services Hospital administration suspended two more employees on Wednesday over charges of involvement in the drugs stealing case. A total of six people...

Health Department arrests illegal drug manufacturers

Punjab Health Department Drug Inspectors Team has conducted raids in five different places in Lahore and recovered unregistered and substandard drugs worth millions of...

Jackson doctor ordered gallons of killer drug

Michael Jackson’s doctor faced mounting scrutiny Wednesday after a pharmacist said he had ordered over 250 vials of a powerful sedative in the two...

Drug addict puffs his life away

An unidentified 25-year-old man was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Qilla Gujjar Singh Police precincts on Friday. The deceased was found dead...

Pakistan, Afghanistan, India among major drug trading hubs: Obama

United States President Barack Obama has identified 22 countries, including Pakistan, Afghanistan and India as major drug transit or illegal drug producing countries. In a...

Google to settle drug probe for $500 million

Google will pay $500 million to settle charges that it sold advertisements to Canada-based online pharmacies which marketed drugs to Americans in violation of...

Drug smuggling in full swing in French Colony

Drug smuggling is in full swing in the French colony situated in F-7/4, in the jurisdiction of Kohsar police station. Drug dealers are...

10 million illegal drug users have hepatitis C: study

Some 10 million people who inject illegal drugs have hepatitis C while 1.2 million have hepatitis B, according to the first global estimate of...

Drug regulation devolution: a threat to medicine quality?

The devolution of drug regulation to provinces would affect the uniform quality of medicines in the country and reduce the high foreign exchange earned...

Police recovers 85 kgs of charas, arrest 4 drug peddlers

CIA Cantonment Police arrested four drug peddlers from Ring Road and recovered 85 kilograms of charras from their possession in Burki Police precincts on...

International Day against Drug Abuse observed

The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking was observed in Lahore with a determination to eradicate the evil of drugs from Lahore....

Drug dealer freed from police party

The Sahianwala police who arrested a drug dealer was attacked by a group of the accused’s relatives who thrashed the police and snatched him...

Refresher courses to be organised for drug inspectors

order to ensure the provision of quality medicines and elimination of spurious and substandard drugs from the province, refresher courses would be arranged...

Malaysia arrests two Iranians in $12.6m drug bust

Malaysian customs officials said Saturday they had arrested two Iranian men and seized heroin worth $12.6 million in the country's biggest drug haul of...

Market turns into drug den

In Jalalpur Bhattian, the local parliamentarians with the help of the district government built a market of 110 shops by spending millions of rupees,...