The recent report by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment should awaken every conscience in Jammu and Kashmir. As per the report over one million people in the Union Territory are affected by drug abuse. This grim figure demands more than routine rhetoric. If militancy consumed a generation, drugs now threaten to devour the next. This is not a private tragedy, it is a social emergency.

In a rare political intervention, three senior PDP leaders Iqbal Tramboo, ArifLaigaroo, and ZuhaibYousuf Mir, met the Director General of Police in Srinagar to press the point. Their effort deserves appreciation. It broke a dangerous silence and pushed the crisis into mainstream political discourse.

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