Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) was established on 21 February 1995.
The Anti-Narcotics Force is the principal agency for combating supply and demand reduction of illicit narcotic drugs that enter Pakistan mainly through the long porous border with Afghanistan.
Section 14 of Control of Narcotics Substances (CNS) says: No one shall, within or outside Pakistan, participate in, associate or conspire to commit, attempt to commit, aid, abet, facilitate, incite, induce or counsel the commission of an offense punishable under this act.
Section 53 of Control of Narcotics Substances (CNS) says: The provincial government shall establish as many centers as may be deemed necessary for de-toxification, de-addiction, education, after-care, rehabilitation, social integration of addicts and for supply of such medicines as are considered necessary for the de-toxification of addicts.