ABBOTTABAD: The police raided the houses of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani and former PTI MPA Momina Basit for their arrest over the May 9-10 violent protests.

They searched the houses but didn’t find Mr Mushtaq and Ms Momina and left.

The police also quizzed domestic workers about the whereabouts of the two PTI leaders.

It was the second such raid in 20 days.

The police said that the PTI leaders had gone into hiding to prevent arrest.

Mushtaq, Momina not found at home, domestic workers quizzed

Mr Ghani later issued a statement on social media claiming that the police are harassing domestic workers during repeated raids on his house.

STRIKE CONTINUES: Patients suffered as the strike by doctors and sanitation staff of the Ayub Medical Complex entered the eighth day on Friday.

Outpatient departments remained closed, while the hospital waste piled up at dumpsites.

The strike forced visitors to turn to the district’s two other major hospitals, including District Headquarters Hospital and Women and Children’s Hospital, increasing the workload of their employees.

The visitors complained about a delay in treatment.

Spokesman for the Grand Health Alliance Dr Majid claimed that the hospital administration didn’t heed the demands of the doctors.

He said the strikers won’t make any compromise on their demands, which included withdrawal of the show-cause notices served on them, reversal of the appointment of junior staff members to key positions, start of an investigation into alleged corruption for action, and halt to the deduction of housing subsidy.

Dr Majid also called for the removal of all members of the current board of governors and action against them over the alleged irregularities.

The administration denied allegations and claimed that it carried out administrative and financial reforms in the hospital.

It insisted that paramedics were promoted lately but promotions couldn’t be notified due to a government ban on it.

The administration also claimed the promotion of many doctors during the last four years. It said no evidence of the BoG’s alleged corruption was available on record. It added that sanitation and security services were outsourced for their improvement.

Published in Dawn, June 3rd, 2023