The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, in collaboration with the National Action to Counter Terrorism (NACTA) and with financial support from the U.S. Embassy’s Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL), organized a three-day National Workshop on Evolving responses to Countering Improvised Explosive Devices in terrorism-related offenses through downstream network disruption from July 10-12, 2024, at Murree.
The purpose of the workshop was to gather data from national officials from multiple organizations and agencies, including the Bomb Disposal Unit, Civil Defense officials, Forensic Science Agencies, Intelligence Bureau, and Federal Investigation Agency through the development of downstream network and financial disruption strategies to counter Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IEDs).
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Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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