Tag: Drugs
Sindh consuming untested drugs
Although more than a hundred people lost their life in Lahore due to use of substandard medicine Isotab recently, the people of Sindh are...
SC directs ANF to conduct fair probe into drugs scam involving...
Hearing the Rs 7 billion ephedrine chemical quota scam in which Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son Ali Musa Gilani has also been nominated...
Drugs scandal: PM asks son to return home for investigations
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has reportedly asked his son, MNA Ali Musa Gilani, to cut short his visit abroad and return to Pakistan...
FOR PRIME MINISTER, SON COMES FIRST!
After failing to rein in the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) from proceeding against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son over the Rs 7 billion Ephedrine...
AIG Punjab issued contempt notice in fake drugs case
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a contempt of court notice to the Additional Inspector General (AIG) Punjab Aslam Tareen in connection to the...
Sharif brothers hoodwinking people by distributing laptops, says Shazia Marri
The Sharif brothers are fooling the people by distributing laptops but the people are clever and know who is responsible for introducing the Kalashnikov...
‘Increase in MDR TB cases due to over-the-counter availability of drugs
The steady increase in the incidence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis is due to the over-the-counter availability of first and second line of anti-...
Iran willing to enhance Pakistan trade by up to $10 billion
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday said his country was ready to enhance trade with Pakistan by up to $10 billion within a couple...
In YDA vs govt, the bureaucracy is the culprit
With the Punjab government completely silent on the issue, patients became the real victim as the Punjab Young Doctors Association (YDA) kept the outpatient...
If not Isotab, what is it?
The Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) drug-death episode has taken another surprising turn as the doctors allege that nearly 55 percent of patients who...
YDA on strike against sacking of senior doctors
The Young Doctors Association in the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) continued their strike Wednesday against the sacking of Chief Executive, Medical Superintendent (MS)...
Killer meds, warring feds
People across Pakistan are thinking twice before taking medication after the recent deaths of more than 120 patients who were prescribed contaminated heart medication...
Speculation rages over cause of Houston’s death
As fans await autopsy results that may not come for weeks, speculation raged that pop legend Whitney Houston may have died from a lethal...
SC orders to form DRA by Feb 17
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday ordered to establish a Drug Regularory Authority (DRA) by February 17, a private TV channel reported.
The SC expressed...
Why this apathy?
When floods engulfed Sindh and hundreds of thousands were rendered homeless and more than a thousand died, there was assistance not only offered by...
Malik to probe faulty reports in spurious drugs case
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday vowed to probe the faulty test reports by local laboratories in the spurious drugs case.
Speaking at a...
Punjab’s spurious drugs mess spills into Karachi
With the spurious cardiac drugs controversy spilling over, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided at least three pharmaceutical firms in the city on Wednesday...
