{"id":89493,"date":"2025-07-22T00:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=89493"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:00:35","slug":"need-to-arrest-big-fish-to-curb-drug-menace-in-jk-minister-sakina-itoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/need-to-arrest-big-fish-to-curb-drug-menace-in-jk-minister-sakina-itoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to arrest &#8220;big fish&#8221; to curb drug menace in J&#038;K: Minister Sakina Itoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, July 21 (KNO): Minister Sakina Itoo Monday said that there was a need to arrest &#8220;big fish&#8221; to control drug menace in Jammu and Kashmir in order to save the future generation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, Minister Itoo, per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said drug menace is a sensitive issue and &#8220;we have to save our future generation. In order to make Kashmir a drug free society, it is a collective responsibility of every stakeholder and community,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that only health and police department can&#8217;t control the issue of drug menace. &#8220;There is a need to catch the big fish. Arresting only those committing the crime at lower level won&#8217;t help in controlling the drug menace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we have to eradicate the Drug menace in Kashmir, we all should take this responsibility. Until and unless, we all take up the responsibility, we won&#8217;t succeed in it. The government and police are doing their job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She further said the community and religious clerics should play an important role to help curb this menace\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, July 21 (KNO): Minister Sakina Itoo Monday said that there was a need to arrest &ldquo;big fish&rdquo; to control drug menace in Jammu and Kashmir in order to save the future generation. &nbsp; Speaking to reporters, Minister Itoo, per news agency&mdash;Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said drug menace is a sensitive issue and &ldquo;we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89494,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89493\/revisions\/89494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}