PESHAWAR, May 15: The acting governor of the NWFP, Justice Tariq Pervez, has called upon officials to solve the problems of people, instead of creating hurdles for them.

Talking to Secretary and Director of the Information Department, Mohammad Afzal Khan and Syed Mehdi Hussain, who called on him, at the Governor’s House on Tuesday, he said the government machinery had become insensitive to the hardships of people.

He quoted several instances of the helplessness of people and the apathy of authorities concerned in this respect.

He said a few days back he went to the casualty department of the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) and sat down there in a chair without disclosing that he was the Chief Justice of the High Court. A patient having both his legs broken in a road accident was asked by the duty officer to bring ATS injection from the medicine shop.

Justice Tariq said he asked the doctor that the patient could not move nor he had any companion so how could he bring the ATS.

The doctor on duty, he said, got enraged and asked him who he was.

Justice Tariq said that he then introduced himself to the doctor and then directed him to bring the ATS from the medicine shop himself. He said today people needed to have “sifarish” to save their lives. He said that many people were languishing in jails for want of “Diyat”.

Justice Tariq paid a surprise visit to the CID police station and the collectorate of Customs on the Jamrud road.—PPI