QUETTA: The Pakistan Medical Association will observe a strike across the country on Monday to protest against targeted killings and kidnapping of doctors.

Talking to newsmen here on Sunday, PMA Central President Dr Abdul Aziz Lehri said the strike would be observed in all government and private hospitals.

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He said several doctors had been killed but the government did not provide security and protection to them. Armed gangs and organisations were involved in kidnapping of doctors in Karachi, Quetta and other parts of the country, he added.

“The authorities, both in Sindh and Balochistan, instead of arresting the culprits who have been committing the heinous crime without fear, just issue statements to media.”

Mr Lehri said a number of doctors had been kidnapped and some of them even killed by kidnappers in Balochistan and Sindh, but authorities had not taken the matter seriously.

He said the PMA would continue to observe the strike if its demand for arrest of the culprits was not met.

PMA Finance Secretary Dr Qaisar Sajjad was present at the press conference.

Published in Dawn February 2nd , 2015

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