Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan Hold 13th Anti-Drug Meeting

AVA- Senior counter-narcotics officials from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan convened in Pakistani capital city of Islamabad today to participate in 13th Senior Officials Meeting of Triangular Initiative on controlling drug trafficking. 
A delegation from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is also taking part in the conference.
The meeting will help three sides to find solution to common challenges by adhering to a comprehensive and balanced approach.
The three governments have already agreed to share real-time information; plan and conduct drug-interdiction operations through the Joint Planning Cell; and establish Border Liaison Offices to effectively counter the trafficking of Afghan opiates.
The UNODC provides technical support to Triangular Initiative partners in facing their respective situations and challenges in field of counter-narcotics.
Iran is in the forefront of the fight against drug trafficking and thousands of Iranian forces have been so far martyred to protect the world from the danger of drugs.
Last Wednesday, Iran's Coast Guard forces confiscated a 1.2 ton haul of narcotics in the Southern Province of Bushehr in the Persian Gulf, arresting a suspect in the operation.
Earlier in November, the coast guards seized an opium haul of 960 kg in Genaveh Port, located near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
The Iranian anti-narcotic police have always staged periodic, but short-term, operations against drug traffickers and dealers, but the latest reports - which among others indicate an improved and systematic dissemination of information - reveal that the world's most forefront and dedicated anti-narcotic force (as UN drug-campaign assessments put it) has embarked on a long-term countrywide plan to crack down on the drug trade since 8 years ago.
Afghan and western officials blame Washington and NATO for the change, saying that allies have "overlooked" the drug problem since invading the country more than 16 years ago.