Category: National

Karachi:Mian Nawaz Sharif has harvested what he had sown, said Pasban e Pakistan President Altaf Shakoor here Friday, adding impartial and across the board accountability of whole corruption mafia is the demand of the nation.In a statement here, he said that in order to end the politics of corrupt dynasties, electables and Waderas, it needs that an impartial and broad-based accountability process should be launched in the country. He said former president Zardari was also accused of mega corruption and he and other corrupt elements should be taken to the task.He said now when the wheel of accountability is set on motion it should not be stopped or interrupted.

He said Mian Nawaz Sharif was punished by Allah, the Almighty, because he had broken the promise with the nation regarding the release and return of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, an innocent daughter of the nation.Altaf Shakoor said when a common man is punished and disgraced even for petty theft, why the big crocodiles of the sea of corruption should be spared. He said it high time for political workers to stop following blindly their corrupt leaders. He asked that Mian Shahbaz Sharif to accept the verdict and instead of giving credit of atomic tests and CPEC to Mian Nawaz Sharif, return the money looted from this nation.

KARACHI: A 5-member delegation of labour leaders of Karachi Site area on Thursday called on provincial caretaker minister for labour and human resources Simon John Daniel at his office and apprised him about the issues of labourers.

Delegation comprised Khawaja Mubasher Zubair, Chairman SITE Labour Forum; Irshad Bhutto, Joint Secretary SITE Labour Forum; Mohammad Aslam Tanoli; Vice President National Trade Union, Israr Ahmed of Kohinoor Employees Union and Gul Zameen Khan of SITE Union.

The labour leaders apprised that welfare schemes, which include death grants, marriage grants and scholarships for workers? siblings, had been stopped for last two years by the Workers Welfare Board. They added that 70 percent flats at Maymar Labour Colony had been allocated to workers; however, there was scarcity of civic facilities like water, electricity and gas.

Labor leaders were of the view that they were not demanding any funds from Sindh government, adding that SESSI and Workers Welfare Board Sindh were run on the funds contributed by the workers. They demanded appointment of welfare mind-sets as heads of SESSI and Workers Welfare Board Sindh who could facilitate workers instead of installing bureaucratic setups.

The caretaker minister told them that he had directed labor department, SESSI and Workers Welfare Board administrations to computerize all the record of registered workers and centralized data should be created for making access of workers to welfare measures trouble-free. He told them that he had also directed SESSI administration to stop local purchase of medicine so as to provide quality medicine to workers at SESSI healthcare facilities.

KARACHI:Eminent Plastic Surgeon and Head of Burns Center, Karachi, Dr Ehmer-Al-Ibran has said that acid injuries in children are increasing in Sindh province, as well as, in Pakistan as citric acid is being sold in cold drink bottles and authorities concerned have failed to stop the selling of acid in open market.

Talking to PPI, Dr Ehmer Ibran explained that the acid-related attacks were common in females and males but now acid injuries are also being reported in children due to unsafe storage and unnecessary use of such products in homes.

He said acid is being used for cleaning toilets but sometime it becomes harmful for users particularly children if such products are not used or stored sensibly.

“Acid is being sold in cold drink bottles in markets and its open sell has resulted in increase in burns incidence to innocent children. He said some child patients are being rushed to the Burns Units with complaints that children drank the acid mistakenly by thinking it was a cold drink,” he added.

He said acid is not only harmful for people using it unsafely but it also damages the sewerage pipe lines.

He said an incident was reported in Shikarpur district a few days ago where a youngster Abdul Rasheed accidently received acid burn injuries when a small bottle of acid suddenly fell from a shelf over him while he was sleeping.

He said the youngster was badly injured and shifted to Burns Centre Karachi from Sikharpur after getting initial treatment from a local hospital of Sukkur.

He said the condition of patient is gradually improving but such incidents should be eye-opener for the families who use dangerous acids in causal manner. He asked them to adopt preventive measures to save their children.

He said an acid victim should be washed gently for an hour and then shifted to a nearby hospital for proper treatment.

Dr Ehmer said burn-related injuries and deaths can be reduced at homes as well as at workplace by implementing laws. He said acid should be sold only to people who show a valid identity card, in order to reduce acid-related attacks, injuries and deaths.

He demanded of the federal and provincial governments to regulate selling of acid on urgent basis. He further demanded that the acid attacker should be awarded rigorous punishment.