Chemists on hunger strike

Published January 22, 2008

TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 21: A hunger-strike camp was set up on Monday by local chapter of the Chemists and Druggists Association against the imposition of Drug Act of 2007.

Speaking on the occasion, association’s president Chaudhry Anwar Gujjar, termed the act economic murder of medical storeowners and said the government was pleasing and benefiting the multi-national companies by ruining the business of local medical stores. — Correspondent

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