Tag: DRAP

Health ministry seeks removal of DRAP CEO

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Service and Regulations has sought the removal of Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...

DRAP seizes stocks of overpriced medicines

ISLAMABAD: During a countrywide action against unauthorised and illegal hike in prices of medicine, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) claimed to have...

Response sought from DRAP in medicines’ price hike case

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday directed Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) to submit its reply, in a plea challenging the...

1600 booked for selling unregistered drugs

ISLAMABAD: The federal and provincial authorities have registered more than 1600 cases against manufacturers and sellers found in violations of relevant law under a...

IHC reinstates Sheikh Akhtar as DRAP CEO

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday suspended a notification with regard to removal of Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) Chief Executive...

PHC halts implementation of 15pc hike in medicine prices

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday halted the implementation of 15 per cent increase in medicine prices. The two-member PHC bench, comprising Justice...

HEC questions veracity of DRAP chief’s PhD

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Friday raised questions regarding the authenticity of Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sheikh Akhtar Hussain's...

Federal, provincial govts issued notices over drug price hike

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday issued notices to the federal and the provincial governments along with Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan...

Citizens suffer amid ‘artificial’ drugs shortage

--Hospitals and medical stores on verge of running out of lifesaving medicines as pharmaceutical companies’ owners mint money of people’s misery --DRAP spokesperson assures authority...

Newly-appointed DRAP CEO faked death to escape NAB

Sheikh Akhtar Hussain, who had previously succeeded in declaring himself dead in a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) reference against him was appointed as Drug Regulatory...

DRAP launches new website for improved accessibility

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has launched its new website developed by its own Management Information Systems (MIS) Division. Chief Executive Officer...

SC orders DRAP to freeze medicine prices

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar has ordered the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) to freeze the prices of medicines across the...

9 firms asked to recall ‘contaminated medicines’ for treating blood pressure...

ISLAMABAD: Nine pharmaceutical companies have been directed by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) to recall medicines of high blood pressure, manufactured by...

Substandard stents case: SC summons DRAP chairman, finance secretary

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) chairman and finance secretary to appear before the court on July 7,...

SC rejects appeal seeking suspension of DRAP act’s Tibb-e-Unani part

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) rejected an appeal that sought the suspension of the Tibb-e-Unani part of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) Act 2012...

DRAP approves product enlistment applications

ISLAMABAD: Drugs Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) Wednesday approved 106 product enlistment applications of nutraceuticals and 21 herbal and Unani from local manufacturers and...

Summary for appointing Drap chief to be sent to caretaker govt

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) is likely to send a summary to the caretaker government for appointing the Drug Regulatory Authority...