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GUJRANWALA, April 11: The Pakistan Medical Association has expressed resentment over the police failure to arrest an MPA and his men who had manhandled the Gakkhar rural health centre in-charge.
At a meeting here on Friday with PMA president Dr Ishtiaq Safdar in the chair, the participants said MPA Mazher Javed and his men had manhandled RHC in-charge Dr Mohammed Akram and threatened him with dire consequences.
They threatened that doctors of civil hospitals, including DHQ and THQ, and health centres would go on strike if the MPA and his men were not arrested within three days.
On the other hand, the MPA and his men have got an interim bail from a court of law.
The MPA said, in a statement, he would table a privilege motion on the floor of the house in its next session.
PROTEST: The activists of religious parties and students of seminaries took out a protest procession against US-led aggression against Iraq.
They gathered outside Sheranwala Bagh after Juma prayers and marched up to Gondlanwala Chowk. The protesters also set on fire the effigies of Bush and Tony Blair.
The procession was led by Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA Maulana Qazi Hamidullah, MPA Mufti Ghulam Farid and MMA district president Hafiz Hamid Akhtar.
Speaking on the occasion, they said the ‘fall of Baghdad’ was the result of negligence of the rulers of Muslim countries who had failed to unite at one platform.
Meanwhile, the Christian community also condemned the invasion of Iraq and staged a hunger strike camp at the city tehsil council.
Speaking at the hunger strike camp, Christian leaders Tariq Javed, Sikandar Fakhat, David Qaiser and Ishtiaq Masih expressed their shock over the killing of innocent people in Iraq.
Later, they took out a protest procession and chanted slogans against Bush and Blair.
SHOW-CAUSE NOTICE: The range police DIG on Friday served a show-cause notice on an SHO for defective investigation of a murder case and sought a report from the district police officer.
Reports said proclaimed offender Majid was killed by a Rescue-15 squad on the GT Road on Nov 2, 2001. Satellite Town’s former SHO inspector Tariq Zafar registered a murder case against Rescue-15 squad members Sanaullah, Riaz, Nawaz and Abdul Razzaq and sent them to jail.
Later, the investigation of the case was referred to Civil Lines ASP Javed Jaskani who got investigated the case and discharged it.
The DIG issued a show-cause notice to the former SHO for conducting defective investigation and sought a report from DPO Saud Aziz who has also issued a notice to the SHO.
ACQUITTED: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 acquitted five accused involved in the killing of as many people when the witnesses could not support the prosecution here on Friday.
Those acquitted are Ibrar, Nisar, Sharif, Riaz and Boota. They had killed five people, including two women, in Mansoorwali in 2001.
