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Torture on doctors: call for countrywide protest likely today

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Doctors Action Committee (DAC) will today (Saturday) determine the twin city medical community’s future course of action against police’s reluctance to arrest the torturers of two Polyclinic doctors. For the last seven days, the doctors and paramedics of Islamabad and Rawalpindi have been protesting against National Assembly Deputy Secretary Tariq Khakwani and his family members’ torture of Dr Riffat Pasha and Dr Ali Khan for refusing to administer an unlabeled injection to a person they had brought in. A spokesperson for the DAC told Daily Times that senior doctors of the twin cities would attend Saturday’s meeting, which was likely to give a call for nationwide protest against Polyclinic doctors’ torture and police’s disinclination to arrest the culpable persons. He said the doctors and paramedics’ protest would continue until the torturers were arrested and handed down exemplary punishment. When contacted, Polyclinic’s spokesman Dr Shaukat Kayani said Health Secretary Suleman Ghani had promised him action against Khakwanis according to the law.

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