Title: Narco-terrorism: Narco-terrorism: What is it and how is India tackling the menace? | India News
Headings: Narco-terrorism: What is it and how is India tackling the menace?
Narco-terrorism: What is it and how is India tackling the menace?
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The Customs Department on June 30 seized more than 530 kg of suspected heroin worth Rs 2700 crore which was being smuggled from Pakistan, at the integrated check post in Attari.
Key Highlights
What is narco-terrorism?
Steps taken by India to tackle narco-terrorism

Content: Drug trafficking has provided funding for insurgency and those who use terrorist violence in various regions throughout the world. In some cases, drugs have even been the currency used in the commission of terrorist attacks, as was the case in the 2004 Madrid bombings. Narcotics trafficking remains one of the most common and most lucrative forms of criminality on which terrorists rely in order to finance their organisations and activities. Due to high pecuniary value and the low volume to value ratio of smuggling and trafficking illicit narcotics (cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, hashish, marijuana, methamphetamine, opiates, etc.) and the chemical precursors required to manufacture some of these drugs, this criminal activity is an attractive one for terrorists, insurgents and transnational criminals. Addressing the South Asia Sub-Regional Drug Focal Point Meeting and Drug Demand Reduction expert group consultation in July 2018, the then home minister Rajnath Singh said India faces a serious challenge because of drug trafficking due to its proximity to major opium-growing areas of the region and the agencies concerned are dealing with it effectively. "Involvement of various terrorist groups and syndicates in drug trafficking leads to a threat to the national security and sovereignty of states by the way of narco-terrorism," Rajnath said. He also said the global community is facing serious consequences of drug abuse and it undermines the socio-economic and political stability and sustainable development. Steps taken by India to tackle narco-terrorism
In order to contain the problem of narco-terrorism, the national and state agencies work in coordination with agencies of neighbouring countries. India has entered into various arrangements like bilateral agreements, Memorandum of Understandings, Joint Working Groups on Counter-Terrorism and Judicial Cooperation with the countries in the South Asian region.