Now you have to take drug test to enter school in Sindh

Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday issued commands to jump start the process for making drug tests mandatory among students of government and private educational institutions, a press release said.

The purpose of meeting was to examine the menace of drug abuse in schools of Sindh and to draft a law that would make it mandatory for all students to go through a drug test.

According to the statement, the chief minister during the meeting observed that alarming reports have emerged from some leading universities of the country where a number of students were using drugs.

“I am quite worried to [sic] protect our children from all social evils, and it becomes our collective responsibility to protect our children from the growing menace of drugs. It would be mandatory for every student to qualify the test” he said.

The chief minister constituted a committee comprising Sindh Health Minister Dr Sikandar Mendhro, Education Minister Jam Mehtab Dahar, Education Secretary Iqbal Durrani and Health Secretary Fazal Pechuho with directions to draft a law for making drug tests compulsory for students of secondary, higher secondary and university level.

The meeting was attended by the provincial ministers and secretaries for education and health, and home ministries, among others.