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Fresh approach to curbing narcotics abuse The Punch
Published 6 July 2021
IF you are not familiar with the terminologies that come up next, there might be an urgent need to get acquainted with them, especially if you are a parent concerned about the welfare of your family. The slangs include Loud, skunk, brown, gutter juice (omi gutter), Milley, Colorado, Pamilerin, Horse, Brown Sugar, Mary and Joan, Choko, Yoyo, Kush, Blaze, Ndedeko and Bendel Market. There are more and the chief reason to be familiar with them is that these are the street jargon used as substitutes for the hard drugs being consumed in torrents by Nigerian youths.
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EU launches new rule of law programme in KP and Balochistan
July 3, 2021
Islamabad : He European Union and its partners launched a programme that aims to promote the rule of law and enhance the criminal justice system in Pakistan, with a specific focus on the provinces of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan. Anchored in the vision that an enhanced and reformed justice sector is the only sustainable solution for addressing critical and systematic weaknesses in justice delivery, the programme spans from 2021 till 2025, and is financed with EUR20 million, says a press release.
Jointly implemented by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the programme aims to support reform processes to ensure delivery of people-centered justice, enhance access to justice for all, particularly women and less privileged/marginalized groups; and improve ser
July 03, 2021
Reuters
ROTTERDAM - A Dutch court on Friday (July 2) approved an Australian request to hand over the alleged leader of an Asian drug syndicate who has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.
Tse Chi Lop, a Chinese-born Canadian national, was arrested in January at Amsterdam s Schiphol Airport at the request of Australian police while in transit from Taiwan to Canada.
The defence said it would appeal, and the matter will be decided by the Dutch Supreme Court. A final decision on extradition will be taken by the Dutch government.
Tse has denied wrongdoing and contested his arrest, saying the Australian authorities in effect engineered his expulsion from Taiwan to Canada on a flight with a stopover in the Netherlands so that he could be detained there.