BAHAWALPUR, Feb 13: Governor Khalid Maqbool has terminated the chairman and members of the Board of Management of the Quaid-i-Azam Medical College/Bahawal Victoria Hospital and made fresh nominations for the offices, according to a notification.

Those terminated were Justice Muhammad Husain Sindhar (retired), the chairman, and members Dr Bilqees Nawaz Khan, Chaudhry Muhammad Amin, Dr Muhammad Rafi Qamar, Dr Luqman Ali and Abdul Hameed Rehmani.

Prof Dr Syed Ali Ajwad Shah Jafri, the QMC principal, has been nominated the official member while the other members from the public sector are: Muhammad Husain Cheema and Hafiz Muhammad Qasim, former IG prisons, Chaudhry Muhammad Masood Nasir, former chairman of the district public safety commission, Dr G Sarwar Riaz, Malik Habibullah Bhutta and Chaudhry Muhammad Amjad Khan, a former district and sessions judge. However, the BoM chairman has not been nominated.

The order issued by Punjab Health Secretary Raees Abbas Zaidi on behalf of the governor has not mentioned any reason for the termination of the board.

Meanwhile, the official member presided over the first meeting of the new board here on Tuesday.

MPC: The future of the holding of the multi-party conference in London from the ARD platform will be decided during the meeting of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and PPP chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto next week.

This was stated by PML-N provincial president Sardar Zulfikar Khosa while talking to journalists at the residence of joint secretary Chaudhry Saud Majeed on Tuesday.

Khosa said a five-point agenda was expected to come under discussion during the meeting. He claimed that it was a wrong impression that Ms Bhutto avoided to ensure her presence in the MPC.

He told a questioner that though there were bleak chances of transparent elections in 2007 in the presence of a president-in-uniform, the whole situation would be discussed by the ARD. He condemned alleged rigging in the Jamshoro bypolls.

He opposed the presidential election by the assemblies which, he said, could not elect a president for the second term.