SIALKOT, March 25: A team of doctors who are members of parliament equipped with drugs will go to Iraq in the first week of April for providing medical treatment to the Iraqi people.
This was stated by MNA Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan while talking to newsmen here on Tuesday.
She said there were 24 qualified doctors (19 in the National Assembly and four in Senate). They have formed a ‘Parliamentarian Doctors Forum (PDF).’ They have agreed to serve injured Iraqis on humanitarian grounds from the platform of PDF.
Dr Awan said the PDF would collect life saving drugs from national and multinational companies and philanthropists. It had also appealed to all the parliamentarians to donate their one month’s salary for the Iraqi people, she said.
Although it would be a unofficial tour, the Pakistan government would fully support it, she added.
She claimed that Pakistan government had no objection to the PDF visit to Iraq.
SEMINAR ON TB: Around four million people are suffering from tuberculosis in Pakistan and at least 250,000 people are falling victim to the disease every year.
This was stated by a number of speakers at a seminar here on Monday evening. A large number of people from all walks of life attended the seminar.
They said Pakistan was among those six countries where TB was spreading at a fast rate.
They said more than two billion people were suffering from TB the world over and three million people died every year. More than 10 million people have so far been recovered as revealed by the WHO in its report.
They said WHO had confirmed that 900 million women of 15 to 45 years of age were suffering from TB.
The speakers appreciated the role played by the missionary institutions in providing service to the ailing people.
The participants pledged to work for complete eradication of TB.
Death sentence: Six convicts were awarded death sentence with heavy fines in separate murder cases during the last two days.
Sialkot additional district and sessions judge Nazir Ahmad awarded death sentence on four counts with a fine of Rs400,000 to Mohammed Sharif for killing four people — Sarfraz, Amjad, Mohammed Husain and Arshad — in New Mianpura, Hajipura, Sialkot city, on Nov 8, 1994.
The judge also awarded death sentence with a fine of Rs50,000 to Bashir in a murder case of the Sabzpeer police.
Daska additional district and sessions judge Khalid Bashir awarded death sentence with a fine of Rs100,000 to Riaz for killing his father, Nazir, over a property dispute in Dhanokey some three years ago.
Sialkot additional district and sessions judge Tariq Mahmood awarded death sentence with a fine of Rs50,000 each to Rafiq and Tariq Shamas for killing Navid during a dacoity incident in Kotli Tatliyan.
In another murder case, additional district and sessions judge Mujahid Mustaqeem awarded death sentence with a fine of Rs100,000 to Shabbir Husain for killing his sister-in-law, Safia Bibi, over a domestic dispute in Dheengal, Kotli Syed Amir, on July 6, 2002.
RECOVERED: A bailiff of the Sialkot district and sessions judge raided the Rangpura police station and recovered three people — Abid Husain, Munshi Tanzeel and Munawwar — from illegal custody of the police.
SHOT DEAD: The daughter of a landlord was shot dead by three dacoits in Waan, Begowala, Daska tehsil, here late Monday night.
Reports said the dacoits stormed into the house of Latif and held hostage family members at gunpoint. When landlord’s daughter Shamim put up resistance, the dacoits shot her dead.
Two armed motorcyclists snatched cash, gold ornaments and valuables worth Rs150,000 from Munawwar Khan, the director (finance), social security, Gujranwala, and his family in Muhallah Imam Sahib.