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Karachi: A roundtable conference organized by Rabita Forum International on ‘American threat & stability of Pakistan’ noted that Pakistan has done enough and it is the time that America does more.

According to details, the roundtable

Threadbare discussed the whole situation and regretted that the sacrifices of Pakistan were forgotten by the new US administration.

The speakers said we are not prepared to fight for an ungrateful nation, which earlier was a secular and liberal country now turning to a racist one.

The moot unanimously resolved that we the representatives of civil society of Pakistan, in the capacity of professors, businessmen, lawyers, members of the media, Intellectuals, ex-service men, and from all walks of life strongly condemn the American Trump Administration’s undiplomatic, threating attitude and ungratefulness towards Pakistan’s sacrifices to make America single super Power in 1989 and then helping in the war of terror after 9/11.

This conference paid rich tributes to Pakistan’s armed forces, law enforcing agencies including civilians who have given precious lives and properties to achieve the honor for Pakistan being the only country of the world that has defeated terrorism and hybrid war imposed upon it by the foreign powers.

This gathering of intellectuals considers that America is blaming Pakistan to cover up its failure in Afghanistan. Pakistan has done so much for USA led war on terror that no other country has done against terrorism. There is no safe haven of any terrorist organization in Pakistan.

This assembly of peace loving people of Pakistan demands that America should stop Pakistan bashing and should openly accept Pakistan’s sacrifices of lives, property and collateral damages and should pay due respect and compensation.

This conference demands USA and its administration should also stop creating war like situation in the world. It should also stop supporting India and terrorists who are doing acts of terrorism to increase the sufferings of the people of Pakistan, trying to destabilize Pakistan from safe havens of Afghanistan under shelter of USA, Afghanistan and India.

This conference strongly demands peace loving people of the world should warn India the consequences of interference and doing numerous acts of terrorism in Pakistan and also violation of Line of Control.

This conference does understand that America is one of the super powers, the determination of people of Pakistan, however, is to protect the sovereignty and solidarity of Pakistan in any eventuality at any cost.

This conference reached to this conclusion that USA is in the hands of irresponsible administration which lacks credentials for world peace, respect sovereignty of other countries and moral values.

This conference thankful to China, Turkey Iran and Russia for supporting Pakistan’s position and accepted our sacrifices in the war of terrorism and have asked Trump Administration to recognize the Pakistan’s services to mankind.

This conference appeals to the world and to the people of United States of America to contain Donald Trump to save the golden future of the world.

In case of further bullying Pakistan by America, the American access to land and space should be stopped,

Those who spoke were Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Sindh Minister of Information and Labor; Lt. Gen.(retd) Moinuddin Haider; Air Marshal® Riazuddin Shaikh, Nusrat Mirza, Farid Ahmad Dayo Vice president Supreme Bar Association, Haider Imam Rizvi President Karachi Bar Association, Vice Admiral ®Asaf Humayoon, Dr. Huma Baqai IBA, Dr. Shaida Wizarat Director Research IOBM, Ahmad Khan Malik President Karachi Press Club, Yasin Azad Former President Supreme Bar, Prof. Seema Naaz Siddiqi from Urdu University, Commodore ® Syed Obaidullah and others.

KARACHI: Long-awaited Sindh Healthcare Commission would be launched by the end of January 2018 and registration of healthcare hospitals would be started all over the province after the functioning of this regulatory authority.

Sindh Healthcare Commission’s Chairman Prof Dr Tipu Sultan told PPI that the Commission was being launched in Sindh province by the end of the January. It is a regulatory authority constituted by Sindh Health Department to register and monitor public & private hospitals and eliminate quackery in the province.

He said the aim of introducing the Commission was to provide quality healthcare facilities to residents of Sindh province and get rid of quackery. He said all private hospitals, clinics, maternity homes, blood banks and laboratories would be registered across the province soon.

He said Sindh the Commission’s office was established at Doctors’ Plaza, near Teen Talwar area of Clifton where seven directors and chief executive officers (CEO) of Commission, were currently sitting on regular basis to finalize the arrangements to launch the commission.

Prof Sultan said that the Sindh government had released a Rs100 million seed money for the commission and hiring of 65 employees for its Secretariat would begin very soon.

He said a total of 135 employees would be recruited to run the Secretariat’s affairs. He said officials like directors, deputy directors, assistant directors, health inspectors and others staff would be hired to run the affairs smoothly.

Earlier, Sindh Assembly had passed the Sindh Healthcare Commission Bill into law on 24th February 2014 and the governor Sindh had accorded assent to it on 19th March 2014. The bill was aimed to improve healthcare quality, protecting patients’ rights, doctors’ safety at healthcares, monitoring of public and private hospitals and ending practice of quackery in the medical field that plays with the life of patients.

KARACHI: The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Sunday ordered the makers of tea whiteners to inscribe ‘It’s not milk’ on the packets of tea whiteners within four weeks.

Hearing a case pertaining to substandard packaged milk at its Karachi registry, the apex court full bench, headed by the CJP, and comprising Justice Faisal Arab and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, came down hard on health secretary and asked him whether there was any drug inspector in the province or not.

During the hearing, the court’s Nazir submitted his report regarding the injections being given to buffalos to increase milk quantity. The report said that such injections were being sold in the market, adding that 39 packets of the same were confiscated from one medical store.

The court ordered that drug inspectors should be assigned to conduct raids in the market for recovering such injections and ascertaining the stock available at retailers and distributors.

Besides, the court also directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to initiate crackdown on the milk-increasing injections being sold in the market.

The CJP remarked that milk and tea whitener were two separate things, adding that some companies manufacture tea whiteners only while others sell milk in packs.

”Tea whitener is not milk at all,” said the top judge of the country.

The court directed the makers of tea whiteners to clearly inscribe ‘It’s not milk’ on the packets and make it advertised in newspapers and television.

The makers of tea whiteners maintained that the tea whitener was made of the milk on which the CJP once again said it was not milk. “We are allowing you four-week time so as to save you from loss. The court’s directives should be complied with within stipulated time,” the judges ruled.

Earlier on Saturday, the court directed authorities to conduct lab tests of all packaged milk brands being sold in Sindh from Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR).

The court ordered that the samples of all brands be collected and the same should be examined from the PCSIR. It sought the report on the quality of the milk within 15 days.

Karachi: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Sindh chapter president Dr Arif Alvi has demanded to withdraw the fake case against PTI leader Haleem Adil Sheikh and others and stop political vendetta in the province.

Addressing a crowded press conference at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) here Sunday, he said the case against PTI Sindh executive senior vice president Haleem Adil Sheikh in connection with Ibrahim Haideri tragedy is totally fake, and lodged on political basis. He said Haleem Adil had saved the life of the accused by getting him shifted to the police station in a mobile van, because the angry mob gathered there wanted to burn him alive.

He said had Haleem Adil not saved his life the mob had surely lynched the accused. He regretted that however instead of giving credit to Haleem Adil a fake case was lodged against him and 50 other people.

Dr Alvi said that instead of discharging its duties the police are busy in lodging fake cases which is deplorable. He asked to withdraw the fake case against Haleem and others; otherwise, the PTI would launch a big protest. He said after the Kasur tragedy people are very angry, but the police have failed to provide them protection.

The PTI leader asked to encourage appointments of women in the education department. He said awareness amongst students should be raised to save them from such tragedies. He said CCTV cameras should be installed around the schools, especially the government schools. He said there is a big role of teachers and parents to ensure safety of children. He said media is an important stakeholder of society as it highlights such issues promptly.

However, PTI leader Jameela Baloch said that police and angry people were present there and beating up the accused when they reached there. She said she had called Haleem Adil to rush there and he saved the accused from the mob justice and took him to the police station. She said had Haleem Adil Sheikh not helped in shifting of the accused to the police station in a mobile van the angry mob would have surely lynched him on the spot.