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Japan and UNODC install prefabricated buildings and body scanners to enhance capacity of ANF Pakistan

Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) receives prefabricated buildings and body scanners

Shehzad Roy designated UNODC Goodwill Ambassador

Pakistan has awarded Roy by ‘Sitara-e-Imtiaz’ in 2005 in honour of undisputed efforts humanity United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has appointed Pakistan’s renowned musician and singer Shehzad Roy as its National Good will ambassador. Shehzad Roy appointment is...

Malala named youngest UN Messenger of Peace

Malala Yousafzai’s appointment will promote peace with a special focus on girls’ education United Nation Nobel Peace award holder Malala Yousafzai has been assigned a new designation ‘Messenger of Peace’ in UN. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Malala Yousafzai...

UNODC launches $70m project to empower Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies

UNODC Country Programme to address Pakistan’s development challenges within its mandated areas of illicit trafficking, drug control, and crime prevention ISLAMABAD – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) presented its USD 70 Million Country Programme II (2016-19)...

Pakistan State Bank inaugurated Data Centre to control money laundering

Governor State Bank Ashraf Wathra along with British High Commissioner and UNODC representative inaugurated the Data Centre. The State Bank of Pakistan inaugurated Pakistan’s first high-tech data centre by State Bank of Pakistan Governor, the British High Commissioner and the...

Number of drug dependent adults increase first time in six years: Drug Report 2016

Heroin use and related overdose deaths have increased sharply over the last two years in North America and Western and Central Europe World Around five per cent of the adult population, or nearly 250 million people between the ages of...

Project launched to disrupt trafficking, smuggling networks in Pakistan

The UNODC Country Office in Pakistan (COPAK) signs an agreement with the Australian Government for a project aimed at strengthening response to human trafficking and migrant smuggling in Pakistan ISLAMABAD – A new project will help Pakistan combat transnational crimes...

Air Cargo Profiling Unit Training launched in Karachi

KARACHI - Two weeks theoretical training of the Karachi Airport “Air Cargo Profiling Unit” under its Global Container Programme  began here on Monday. The Global Container Control Program is a joint initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and...

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South Korea’s KAI signs $1.4 billion deal to launch mass production of homegrown KF-21 fighter jets

Nine years after the development of South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae began, the Korean government finalized a significant deal with Korea Aerospace Industries for the production of 20 fighter jets