PESHAWAR, June 23: The Joint Action Committee, an organization of doctors, teachers and students, on Monday announced that it would observe a two-hour token strike at all government hospitals in the province daily from Tuesday to press for the arrest of the killer of Dr Farooq Hilal.

Dr Farooq was shot dead down allegedly by a lawyer in the Abbottabad Medical Complex on June 17 following an exchange of hot words. Another doctor was injured in the shooting.

JAC office-bearers told a press conference that the doctors would observe the strike from 8am to 10am. JAC chairman Dr Haroon Khan expressed concern that despite the passage of one week, the police had not arrested the killer.

He said that high-handedness against teachers and doctors had increased and referred to the beating of some teachers allegedly by the staffers of the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Kohat and Abbottabad, recently