November 13, 2008	Thursday	Ziqa'ad 14, 1429

HYDERABAD, Nov 12: A villager has accused a privately-run laboratory of issuing him a wrong test report, which declared that his son’s kidneys had failed, and demanded its closure.

Ghulam Rasool of Haji Abdul Karim Jahejo village said at a news conference at the press club on Wednesday that a child specialist advised a test of his 12-year-old son Mohammad Ashraf some time back when he was suffering from high fever.

He took his son to Time Laboratory which gave the report that his son’s kidneys had failed, he said.

The child specialist, however, rejected the report and advised him to go for Aga Khan Hospital laboratory, whose report showed everything was quite normal. When he contacted the laboratory again, the staff threatened with dire consequences, he said.

“The false report issued by the Time Laboratory has caused me a lot of mental torture and I, therefore, demand an inquiry against the laboratory and call for its closure,” Ghulam Rasool said.

PML-N: Leaders of the Jamshoro chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Wednesday accused rulers of victimising party activists through police and demanded withdrawal of ‘false cases’ lodged against them.

PML-N district president Dr Abdul Hamid Rajput and other office-bearers claimed at a news conference that the powers that be had turned against PML-N activists after hundreds of workers of Kotri industrial area joined the party just in a month.

He opposed privatisation of the Qadirpur gas field and said that his party’s leadership had no ambiguity on the issue. He demanded that the decision to privatise the gas field should be withdrawn to end unrest among workers and people.