Case against neurosurgeonRAWALPINDI, April 28: Police on Thursday registered a case against a neurosurgeon and two other doctors for wrong treatment of a woman leading to her death.

The case was registered under PPC 319 (unintentional murder) after the Sadiqabad police received legal experts’ opinion. However, no arrests were made.

Imran Zulfiqar Ahmed lodged a complaint with the police on April 11 after his wife, Asima, died in the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital on April 7. Ahmed told the police that in January this year he took his wife, who was complaining of headache, to Dr Arif Malik.

He said a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test showed a tumor in her brain. Imran and Asima had three children.

He said after examining the test reports, Dr Malik advised brain surgery, asked him to admit Asima at his private clinic in Sadiqabad and demanded Rs300,000 as fee. The operation was done in January.

Imran said though the doctor assured him that his wife would be walking after 72 hours of brain surgery, she died after remaining in coma for more than two-and-a-half months. He said he had taken his wife to different hospitals where she was kept on ventilator. — Staff ReporterRemand of ZTBL officialsISLAMABAD, April 28: The judicial magistrate on Thursday granted four-day physical remand of five arrested officials of the Zarai Tarqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) who attacked the officials of Employees Old Age Benefits Institutions (EOBI) and journalists covering the event and snatched their cameras.

The five accused including Col (retired) Qazi Manzoor Alam, Ghulam Muhammad, Imran Khan, Wasim Satti and Hafizullah were presented before Judicial Magistrate Malik Naeem Shaukat by the Aabpara police.

The investigation team told the court that the accused were arrested on April 27, 2011 as they attacked the EOBI officials and the journalists in the ZTBL office and their physical remand was needed to investigate the case and to recover the video cameras snatched from the journalists, arms and other articles used in the attack.

The police requested the court to grant six-day physical remand of the accused but the judicial magistrate allowed four-day remand. He also directed the police that all the accused nominated in the FIR should be produced in the court on May 2, 2011.— Staff ReporterFactory sealed

RAWALPINDI, April 28: District Health Department on Thursday evening sealed a factory in Bhabra Bazaar for preparing, packing and selling fake brands of beverages.

A team of District Health Department headed by District Officer Health (Urban Areas) Dr Ansar Ishaq in a joint operation with local police sealed the factory operating in narrow streets of Bhabra Bazaar and arrested Faisal Aziz, owner of the factory.

Food Inspectors Tanveer Butt and Malik Usman accompanied the district officer health during the raid. The team took into custody hundreds of bottles filled with fake brands of beverages.

The Waris Khan police lodged an FIR against Faisal Aziz for doing business in the fake brands under sections of Pure Food Ordinance 1960 (amended 2007) and under section 141 of Local Government Ordinance 2001.— A ReporterLawyers strike today

ISLAMABAD, April 28: Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) announced that a complete strike would be observed today (Friday) against the murder of Ali Muhammad Dahri, President District Bar Association Nawabshah and a member of the Sindh Bar Council (SBC).

The decision was taken during a meeting of Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) held here on Thursday which strongly condemned the murder of Ali Muhammad Dahri, former member of Pakistan Bar Council, Vice-Chairman Sindh Bar Council. He was killed in his native town the other day.

Asrar-ul-Haq Mian, Chairman, PBC Executive Committee, announced the decision of the meeting and said that Pakistan Bar Council appealed to the members of the legal fraternity through presidents of all the bar associations to observe complete strike today throughout Pakistan. —A Reporter