Doctors threaten strike if those attacking colleague not arrested
By Our Correspondent
2023-02-05
TOBA TEK SINGH: The Young Doctors Association`s Allied Hospital chapter has threatened the medics will go on strike if the culprits who allegedly attacked a lady doctor were not arrested within two days.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday, YDA President Aurangzeb Gujjar said a few days ago two men had shot at and injured Dr Sheeza Ahsan on Sargodha Road but police failed to arrest them.
He warned that doctors would close the out patient departments (OPDs) of all public hospitals if the attackers were not arrested.
Sargodha Road police SHO Muazzam Ali Gujjar claimed that raids were being conducted to arrestthe suspects.
`ROBBER` KILLED: Jhang`s Ahmadpur Sial police claimed onSaturday to have killed an alleged robber in an `encounter`.
The police said their team raided a house in a locality adjacent to Pir Abdul Rehman Shah`s shrine to arrest a proclaimed offender, Iqbal Chohan, of Mauza Ranjeet Kot.They said that on seeing the police team, the suspect took shelter in a sugarcane field and opened fire on them, which was retaliated by the personnel.
When the firing stopped, the police searched the field and found Chohan`s body lying there.
A press release said the deceased was wanted by different police stations of the districtin 17 robbery cases and had also been declared a proclaimed offender by a court.
INJURED: More than two dozen passengers were injured when a bus overturned after hitting a car at the Millat Road Chowk in Faisalabad on Saturday.
According to Rescue 1122, thebus coming to Faisalabad from Sialkot, hit the car coming from opposite direction.
As a result, over 24 people, including the bus passengers and those in the car, were injured.
Of them, 14 persons, who were seriously injured, were shifted to the Allied Hospital.
INTER RESULTS: The Faisalabad Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) announced the results of intermediate part-I, II and composite (second) annual (suppl) examination 2022.
Commissioner and Chairperson FBISE Ms Silwat Saeed preside over the result announcing ceremony.
On the occasion, controller examinations said 12,797 students appeared in the exam, out of them 4,579 were declared successful, showing a pass percentage of and the success rate remained 35.78 per cent.