LAHORE:Punjab Assembly Speaker Muhammad Sibtain Khan Monday met Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and discussed legislation and other issues with him.
The CM expressed his concern over drug-peddling in educational institutions and vowed that strict legislation would be enacted to stop it.
The draft of the Punjab Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 2022 would be finalised soon to make it a law after passing it from the Punjab Assembly as soon as possible, he added.
It was a joint responsibility to protect the new generation from the menace of drugs, he stressed and added that the foreign ambassadors, including the World Bank, had appreciated the efforts of narcotics control and offered cooperation.
The CM disclosed that an autonomous agency would be established in Punjab to deal with drugs.
Similarly, anti-narcotics courts and district-level anti-narcotics police stations would also be set up, he added.
The owners and employees of educational institutions would also be held responsible for the sale and purchase of drugs and those assisting the sale and use of drugs would be brought under the net of law, he warned.
Sibtain Khan assured full cooperation for impl4menttaion of the Punjab Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 2022.