ISLAMABAD, May 18: Pakistan will seek financial assistance for countries producing and smuggling drugs as it will curb the incidence of these menaces, interior minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Sunday.

While confirming Pakistan’s participation in the two-day-long conference, which is to be held in France from May 21, the minister said that the conference would chalk out a global anti- narcotics strategy.

Pakistan, he said, would table several practical proposals to help eradicate the production and smuggling of narcotics.

Over 100 countries, he said, would participate in the conference, adding that they were expected to pass several resolutions for global implementation.

He said that a convention on narcotics, which was recently held in Vienna, Austria, had adopted some recommendations floated by Pakistan, adding that these suggestions were also included in the text of resolutions passed by the convention. Pakistan, he said, had succeeded in discouraging poppy cultivation.