Drugs destroyed for anti-abuse day
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Pakistan lights a multi-million dollar bonfire to mark the United Nations' International Day Against Drugs.
The country is in the top three for global narcotic seizures and was declared poppy-free in 2011.
Pakistani anti-narcotics officials were also destroying thousands of bottles of alcohol.
(SOUNDBITE)(English) COMMANDER OF ANTI-NARCOTICS FORCE SINDH, BRIGADIER MUHAMMAD ABUZAR, SAYING:
"In our country liquor is also prohibited so a lot of liquor was also burned or destroyed but mainly the concern is 55, 000 kilogrammes of narcotics whose value in international currency would go in billions of rupees and millions of dollars maybe."
This 10 million dollar bonfire in Myanmar was also fuelled by confiscated narcotics including heroin and methamphetamine.
The U.N Office on Drugs and Crime says opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar's been on the rise since 2006.
It also pinpoints the c
Pakistan lights a multi-million dollar bonfire to mark the United Nations' International Day Against Drugs.
The country is in the top three for global narcotic seizures and was declared poppy-free in 2011.
Pakistani anti-narcotics officials were also destroying thousands of bottles of alcohol.
(SOUNDBITE)(English) COMMANDER OF ANTI-NARCOTICS FORCE SINDH, BRIGADIER MUHAMMAD ABUZAR, SAYING:
"In our country liquor is also prohibited so a lot of liquor was also burned or destroyed but mainly the concern is 55, 000 kilogrammes of narcotics whose value in international currency would go in billions of rupees and millions of dollars maybe."
This 10 million dollar bonfire in Myanmar was also fuelled by confiscated narcotics including heroin and methamphetamine.
The U.N Office on Drugs and Crime says opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar's been on the rise since 2006.
It also pinpoints the c