MULTAN, Jan 17: The Pharmaceutical Distributors Association has warned that they will stop supplying the life saving drugs if the government cannot provide them security to do the business.

Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Multan PDA president Saeed Qureshi expressed concern over "growing incidents of thefts and dacoities in south Punjab." He said initially the outlaws had targeted their distribution wagons and now they had started attacking the warehouses.

Mr Qureshi said last month medicines worth Rs15 million were taken away from the warehouse of a medicine distribution company in Rahim Yar Khan. The other day robbers escaped with medicines and other goods worth Rs20 million from a warehouse in Multan.

Expressing dissatisfaction over the performance of law enforcement agencies in Multan, he said under the circumstances how the government could ask them to do business and pay taxes.