KARACHI: Excise and Taxation Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla has expressed his inability to take action against the use of drugs at educational institutions across the province saying that it was ‘outside of his domain’.
During the Sindh Assembly session on Thursday, Chawla accepted that there is a growing trend of drug use at private educational institutions in Sindh.
However, he claimed that ‘no one sells drugs inside the schools’.
The minister also justified that his department was not the only one responsible for curbing narcotics’ use in the province and the police, anti-narcotics force, among others, were equally responsible for starting crackdowns against the menace.
On the other hand, Sindh Education Minister Jam Mahtab Hussain Dahar insisted that drugs were not used in government schools.
“It’s a common practice at elite private schools,” he said adding that there are different kinds of drugs being used by students throughout the country.
