New IG visits NH&MP Complex
The Motorway Police will enhance further capacity building and professionalism in officers and also adopt zero tolerance policy against traffic violations. NH&MP IG Aamir Zulfiqar Khan said this during his first visit to the NH&MP Complex Babu Sabu here on Friday. The IG Motorway directed officers to take strict legal action against vehicles involved in traffic violations and also imposed heavy fine. He asked officers to perform their duty without fear and ensure the implementation of law. He directed to officers to ensure firm enforcement of law on motorways and national highways. He also ordered to ensure equal application of law irrespective of one's status. He further said patrolling standards on highways & Motorways would be improved as per international standards. DIG Ahmad Arslan Malik gave a presentation to the IG on operational, performance, initiatives and campaigns of Central Zone. Zonal Commander DIG Ahmad Arslan Malik , DIG Mirza Faran Baig, DIG Mahboob Aslam, SSP Masrool Alam Kolachi, SSP Kamran Adil, SSP Hashmat Kamal and SSP Sulman were also present.–APP
Baloch people praised for accession to Pakistan
Senate Committee on Defence Production Chairman Abdul Qayyum said on Friday that Baloch people’s decision to accede to Pakistan on June 29, 1947 was a significant development. He said that people of Balochistan took this decision despite a connivance as well as pressure of Hindus and British officials. Balochistan is heart of Pakistan and its people would defeat every conspiracy against Pakistan, he added. He was addressing a special sitting on the topic of “29 June 1947 – Historic accession of Balochistan to Pakistan through a referendum” under the aegis of Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust (NPT) at the Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan, Lahore. Dr Ali Nadeem delivered the keynote address. A good number of teachers and students attended the special sitting. Senator Qayyum said that Balochis defeated every conspiracy against Pakistan and they would continue the same in future as well. He said that Balochis and their chieftains responded to the call of Quaid-i-Azam and gave a verdict in favour of Pakistan. He said that Pakistan could have been incomplete without Balochistan. He said that anti-state elements were hatching conspiracies against Pakistan in Balochistan even today. They want to fan differences between civil-military circles in order to promote provincialism, but the nation would expose their designs. Dr Ali Nadeem said that Balochis enhanced the respect of Pakistan by deciding to accede to it. India’s Congress party was striving hard to achieve otherwise but it failed due to efforts of Qazi Muhammad Isa, Mir Jafar Khan Jamali, Nawab Muhammad Khan Jogazei and Mir Ahmed Yar Khan who supported Quaid-i-Azam wholeheartedly. Secretary General of NPT Shahid Rasheed also spoke on the occasion.–Staff Reporter
Anti-quack campaign condoned
The PHC Board of Commissioners appreciated anti-quackery campaign. The commissioners met here on Friday for the 38th meeting at the PHC office with Chairperson BoC Aamer Raza Khan in the chair. COO Ajmal Khan presented the departmental progress report. After a thorough evaluation, the Board rendered decisions in 20 complaints investigated by the Commission’s Complaints Directorate. The Commissioners approved issuing of the regular licences to 486 category-III healthcare establishments. Meanwhile, the commission sealed another five drug addiction treatment after evacuating 64 inmates. The PHC teams visited centres in different cities. In the Rahat Clinic (addiction treatment centre) Jhelum, 18 persons had been kept for months, and one man was there for about one-and-a-half year. –Staff Reporter
Likewise in Nai Zindagi Hospital Sahiwal 22 individuals, Aman Chakwal 11, while in two branches of AM Homoeopathic Drug Rehab Centre in Okara and Sahiwal, nine and four persons were detained respectively. –Staff Reporter
