KARACHI, March 7: Federal Health Minister Naseer Ahmed Khan has said that at present there is no ban on import of medicines from certain European countries involved in the publication of blasphemous cartoons.

He stated this while responding to queries of newsmen after chairing a symposium at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College.

The minister said that he had made a statement in the Senate, emphasizing for placing a ban on import of medicines from some European countries which had been failing to check the publication of blasphemous caricatures for months.

To another question, he said that federal government was taking all measures for the improvement of services and other facilities at JPMC and there did not arise any question of handing over the control of the institution to Sindh government.

He said that the JPMC, the NICH and the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, which were administered by federal government, would be developed together as constituent units of the proposed university.