Month: August 2021

Srinagar, August 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, as part of preparations for the upcoming assembly elections, the work of correcting the voter lists of Kashmiri migrants has started. Apart from amending, deleting and adding names of displaced voters related to Kashmir, voters whose photo is not in the voter ID card are being put up.

For this exercise, teams are visiting displaced camps on the instructions of district election officers of different districts of Kashmir to fix voter lists and complete the process of election identification photo cards, South Asian Wire reported.

In this regard, the team of Ganderbal District Election Department will visit Muthi Camp on August 2, Jagti Camp on August 3 and 4, Nagrota Camp on August 5 and Udhampur on August 6. Relief Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir (Displaced) Tej Krishna Butt informed that the voter list of displaced voters is being reviewed for the upcoming assembly elections.

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HARNAI: Muhammad Hassan Kakar, SP Harnai has said that miscreants and outlaws would be rooted out and all available resources would be utilized to provide justice to the people.

Talking to media here on Sunday, he said that Syed Fida Hussain Shah, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sibbi Range during his visit of Harnai had assured the people that it would be ensured to protect lives and properties of the people. He added that in compliance with the directives of Syed Fida Hussain Shah, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sibbi Range, operations against miscreants had been launched in District Harnai of Balochistan province. He said that cooperation of people was essential for maintaining law and order situation in Harnai, adding that information regarding any suspicious activity be brought into the notice of police so that timely action could be taken.

He said that measures had already been adopted to provide security to the Hindu community dwelling in District Harnai of Balochistan province. He remarked that besides setting up pickets in different areas of Harnai and increasing patrolling of police, crackdown against vehicles with tinted glasses had also been launched. He said that it was the responsibility of police to maintain law and order situation, take action against miscreants and provide security to the people and the needful had been done by the police of District Harnai.

LARKANA: The Sindh Government has finally decided to take back 111 Rural Health Centers and Taluka Headquarter Hospitals outsourced to Integrated Health Services (IHS) in 2016.

In this connection, the Director General, Health Services (SGHS), Sindh, Hyderabad, has directed District Health Officers (DHOs) of 20 districts of the province to take over health facilities from IHS. These DHOs have also been directed to depute a team of at least two senior officers not below the rank of BPS-19 to visit all government health facilities in their respective districts. They will prepare details of assets and submit to the DG office within five days through respective DHOs. This was confirmed by DGHS while talking with this Scribe on Sunday.

These districts include Hyderabad, Badin, Tando Muhammad Khan, Tando Allahyar, Matiari, Dadu, Jamshoro, Mirpurkhas, Tharparkar, Umarkot, Shaheed Benazirabad (Nawabshah), Naushehro Feroze, Sanghar, Sukkur, Khairpur, Larkana, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kashmore and Kambar-Shahdadkot.

These health facilities were outsources to IHS under Public-Private Partnership for better management so that poor patients should not suffer but the poverty-stricken ailing people continued to face hardships and IHS failed to either properly manage or to improve the health care services despite enjoying billions of taxpayer’s hard earned money annually and provision of all the relevant doctors and paramedics who were drawing Health Department salaries. IHS also recruited its untrained people and according to complaints they mostly misbehaved with the visitors and manhandled them over petty issues and they also received late salaries without annual increments and other benefits as enjoyed by regular government servants.

Specialist cadre and post-graduate doctors were not employed to fulfill the requirements due to which indisposed persons had to run from one facility to another for proper diagnosis of their diseases. Medicines, equipment and instruments and diagnostic facilities were lacking and outdated machines were not replaced. Retired doctors were employed against lucrative salaries for OPD work but drugs were procured by the starved patients who were already facing massive price-hikes. As per reports, operation theaters remained mostly closed and emergency services were denied.

As many as 21 Rural Health Centers (RHCs) of the entire Larkana Division were handed over to IHS in 2016 but none of them worked professionally. Meanwhile, Dr. Rafiq-ul-Hassan Khokhar, General Secretary, Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Sindh, in a statement on Saturday, highly appreciated and welcomed the decision of the Sindh Government to take back the possession of Health Care facilities outsourced to IHS.

He said since many years PMA has been demanding the same including health facilities given to PPHI because “these organizations completely failed to deliver proper health care facilities to the patients”, adding “rather they have given a mega financial loss to Government of Sindh”, the statement added. He demanded to take over all leftover health care facilities including those given to PPHI immediately and their employees be merged in the Health Department. However, “the Health Department also needs cleanup operation and needs updated improvement”, the statement concluded.

Dr. Muhammad Sharif Pirzado, Medical Superintendent (MS), 100-Bed Government Hospital, Naundero, said that we fully support government decision of taking back all the health facilities outsourced to IHS because it stood banned in KPK. He said no orthopedic, eye, ENT surgeons were provided and gynecology, pediatrician and other essential post-graduate doctors facilities were denied to the people of Naundero to mention a few.

He said IHS could not even establish paeds ward despite availability of beds and casualty is working without air-conditioners in this hot weather. He said drugs from multinational companies were not supplied. He said Sindh Government should now properly manage these health facilities to reduce rush at Teaching Hospitals for which DDO powers should be given to the MSs along with required annual budget so that poor patients could be given better service.

DALBANDIN: Leaders of National Party and Baloch Students Organization (Bijjar) have called on authorities to apprehend perpetrators involved in the killing of one student Naseemullah. Addressing a protest demonstration held outside Dalbandin Press Club here on Sunday, speakers said that lives and properties of the people were not secured owing to deteriorating law and order situation in District Chagai of Balochistan province.

They said that one student namely Naseebullah was abducted and later mercilessly killed in District Chagai, but district administration and other concerned authorities had so far taken no action. They said that it was the responsibility of state and government to protect the lives and properties of people, adding that the incumbent government had failed to maintain law and order situation and that was why such incidents were frequently occurring.

They said if assailants involved in killing Naseemullah were not apprehended, National Party and BSO (Bijjar) would launch protest movement. Protest demonstration was addressed by Mir Atif Baloch, District President, National Party, Zafar Baloch, Tehsil President, Ghulamullah Baloch, Shafqat Naz Baloch, Senior Vice President, BSO (Bijjar), Zonal Organizer, Waseem Baloch, Sajid Ayaz Baloch and others.

LARKANA: A dispute between the assistant commissioner, Larkana, Ahmed Ali Soomro and Resham Gali shopkeepers took place here on Sunday who had gone there to implement Sindh Government’s lockdown notification and implementation of SOPs. Market police arrested three shopkeepers and locked them up at the police station and a case was registered against two of them. They include Bilawal Shaikh his bother Ghulam Muhammad Shaikh and the third was allowed to go home.

Soomro while talking to media on the occasion said that shopkeepers from Larkana and other parts of the province made videos viral on social media that police are allowing opening of shops of their choice after getting Rs 200 to 500 and those are forced to shut who do not pay the corruption amount. Notice of such videos were taken by the IGP who directed police not to visit bazzars without district administration for closing the shops.

He said he was informed by the police that shops are open in Resham Gali and Shahi Bazaar hence he visited these areas along with cops. He said shops were run by the shopkeepers while closing their shutters but customers were inside their shops. He said I found four women inside a shop along with two shopkeepers when its locks were broken which were refused by the shopkeeper.

He said when I asked them the reason behind locking down women inside their shops the shopkeeper started using foul language hence they were arrested by the police. He said shopkeepers then gathered and started shouting slogans against us. He said yesterday I had requested all the shopkeepers to implement lockdown strictly but they openly violated hence a case has been registered against two shopkeepers and they will be taken to task.

KUCHLAK: Kuchlak police claimed to have seized 70 kilograms of Hashish in an operation conducted in Kuchlak area in Balochistan province on Sunday.

Following the directions of SSP, Saddar, Qazi Ali Raza, a police force Kuchlak under the supervision of DSP Kuchlak, Abdul Salam Kakar and Station House Officer (SHO), Police Station, Kuchlak, Abdul Rub Kakar seized 70 kilogram Hashish from Shehzore vehicle during checking in Kuchlak area.

Two alleged accused Imran son of Ghulam Muhammad and Ghulam Yasin son of Rasheed Ahmed were arrested and accordingly booked. Further investigation was being conducted by authorities of Police Station, Kuchlak.

KARACHI: Central Information Secretary Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians and Member of the National Assembly Shazia Atta Marri has said that people are dying because of the rapid spread of Coronavirus while Imran Niazi’s government is busy in dramas.

She warned that God forbid, if the coronavirus pandemic spread at large and if the situation would be worsen in the country likewise in India then Prime Minster Imran khan would be held responsible for it.

Ms Marri said that Sindh government had given top priority to health and lives of its citizens for which a lockdown had been imposed in the province. This she said in a statement issued heron today. Ms Marri said in her statement that PTI’s Asad Umar reaction to Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s statement was untrue and irresponsible, adding if Umar had competence, he would not have been removed from the post of Federal Finance Minister.

She said that economy is dependent on human health and entire nation asking to know about the received coronavirus funds. Ms Marri further added that unfortunately, country is ruled by a group of fools and incompetent people. She said: “It is a big tragedy for the country that Imran Khan Niazi does not understand anything and he was imposed on an important position of Prime Minster in the country.”