Srinagar, April 26 -- Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet Minister Satish Sharma on Sunday described narcotics as a weapon of anti-national forces to destroy the country's youth and called for a zero-tolerance crackdown, asserting that drug addicts and traffickers were "traitors".

Speaking to news agency Kashmir News Service (KNS) on the sidelines of the 'Sundays on Cycle' event on the banks of Dal Lake sports minister said seveventy one per cent of India's population is below 35 years of age. They cannot destroy the country in any other way. They are using drugs to do their job.

The minister, who holds the Food, Civil Supplies, Transport and Youth Services portfolios, warned that action would be taken against anyone found involved in substance a...