Tag: Strike

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry told the Punjab chief secretary on Friday to submit a report within 15 days about who was responsible for the deaths of several patients during the 37-day doctors' strike.
The CJ questioned why the "ineligible" Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad was not transferred. The CJ told Fawad that if he could not run the affairs, he should quit. The CJ also clarified that the matter was worth taking suo motu notice of,

BRUSSELS - NATO refused to apologise Friday for a deadly airstrike on Libyan rebel tanks, saying that the military alliance was unaware that the opposition was using such vehicles.
"I'm not apologising," Rear Admiral Russell Harding, deputy commander of NATO's Libya operations, told a news briefing.
"The situation on the ground, as I said, was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid. Up until yesterday we had no information that the TNC or opposition forces were using

LAHORE - The government and the young doctors set aside their egos as the Young Doctors Association (YDA) finally ended its strike after a much-awaited meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday, bringing an end to 37 days of suffering for the patients.
In a high-level meeting at Chief Minister's Secretariat, Shahbaz ordered the formation of a 6-member committee, which would submit its recommendations on raising the salaries of doctors and solutions to their

KARACHI - Unidentified robbers struck at the Shershah scrap market on Wednesday, a day after traders observed a shutter-down strike to protest being harassed by extortionists.
Four men on motorcycles arrived at the market and within minutes looted four shops and more than a dozen customers.
Most of the shops at the market were closed at the time as traders were still uncertain about reopening their businesses following Tuesday's strike.
However, almost all traders of

NICOSIA - Syria was bracing on Tuesday for a series of demonstrations organised by a Facebook group to mark "Martyrs Week" as the southern town of Daraa held a general strike. "Martyrs Week" is a series of rallies in honour of those killed in security crackdowns on anti-regime demonstrations and is organised by a group calling itself Syrian Revolution 2011.
"We announced (the protests) as peaceful and insist on that," said a spokesman for the group, which has garnered more than

KARACHI - In a move to pressure the Sindh government into allowing a four-rupee raise in public transport fares, city transporters have threatened to initiate a wheel-jam strike from Monday, April 11, till such time that all their demands are met.
The KTI would soon forward a summary seeking an increase of at least Rs 4 per seat by Sunday, transporters decided at a meeting on Monday of the larger transporters' organization - Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) - at its head-office.

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - The Punjab government late on Monday sacked 13 more young doctors for participating in the ongoing strike, while the Health Department recruited 465 doctors to restore medical care to patients in a majority of teaching hospitals across the province.
The Punjab government has decided not to bow to the demands of the Young Doctors' Association. The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has called an emergency convention of their office-bearers at the district level

DHAKA - Riot police patrolled the streets of the Bangladeshi capital on Monday as a strike called by Islamic parties to protest a proposed law favouring female equality brought much of the country to a halt.
The parties, known as the Islamic Law Implementation Committee, called the strike to protest against the government's move to pass laws ensuring equal property and inheritance rights for women in the Muslim-majority country.
Most shops, businesses and schools in Dhaka

DHAKA - A student was shot dead on Sunday during clashes between police and protesters rallying in western Bangladesh to support a countrywide strike to protest against government policies on women.
Police said the student had joined the rally in Jessore, 280 kilometers (175 miles) from Dhaka, in support of the strike on Monday proposed by the Islami Oikyo Jote (Unity Forum) group.
"Police did not open fire while dispersing the crowds nor did they see who did," said a

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD/KARACHI - A very low turnout of patients was observed at all major hospitals across Punjab, as the Young Doctors Association (YDA) continued the strike on Saturday.
Senior doctors also told their institutional heads about their "inability" to manage wards without young doctors, only adding to the miseries of patients, Pakistan Today has learnt. Per directions from the Health Department, heads of teaching hospitals directed senior doctors to ensure "smooth

ISLAMABAD - The employees of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) Saturday ended their strike after the authorities assured them of fulfilling their demands. The FDE employees had gone on strike on Friday to press the authorities concerned to withdraw termination orders of some high officials of the Directorate. They had also objected to the perks enjoyed by the Chairperson FDE, Dr Shaheen Khan. On Saturday, the authorities assured the FDE employees that their demands would be

LAHORE - Condemning the five-weeks long doctors' strike, eight religious parties on Saturday asked the Punjab government to take punitive steps against doctors.
In a joint meeting held at the Data Darbar, leaders of the Aalmi Tanzeem-e-Ahle Sunnat, Sunni Ulema Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim Front, Tehreek-e-Namoos-e-Risalat, Mashaikh Ahle Sunnat Pakistan, Anjuman Aashqan-e-Rasool, Markazi Milad Committee and Aalmi Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat demanded the immediate removal of doctors from

BREGA - At least 10 rebels were killed by a coalition air strike on Friday, fighters at the scene said on Saturday, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the oil town of Brega.
With the more experienced and better organised rebel army locked in combat with Gaddafi's forces, hundreds of young, inexperienced volunteers could be seen fleeing east towards Ajdabiyah, after coming under heavy mortar and machinegun fire.
A Reuters correspondent at the

LAHORE - The Punjab government has given a 24-hour ultimatum to young doctors to call off their strike or face action under the Compulsory Service Act, a cabinet meeting decided late on Friday.
Terming the services of doctors attached to the Health Department "essential", the government decided further that police be deployed at hospitals to ensure their smooth operation. "It has been decided to ensure that those who want to work should keep working and no one should be allowed

PESHAWAR - Families of the tribesmen killed and injured in the deadly US drone strike on a tribal jirga on Thursday refused to accept the government's compensation and demanded a halt to US drone strikes in the region. The government had announced Rs 300,000 (about $3,530) each person killed and Rs 100,000 for each injured. Over 40 tribesmen were killed and many others injured in a drone strike on a jirga of council of tribal elders in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan on March 17.

ISLAMABAD - The strike observed by doctors associated with the Young Doctors' Association (YDA) allegedly claimed the life of a 13-year-old girl at Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) in Rawalpindi on Thursday. A source in BBH said 13-year-old Sana, a resident of Kalar Saidan, breathed his last at BBH as no doctor was present in the hospital. The source further said Sana was suffering from breath and heart problem and was brought in the emergency department of the BBH on Wednesday night,

LAHORE - The Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Thursday night took back its decision to call off its strike in public hospitals across Punjab. YDA president said the bureaucracy wanted to implement its policy of divide and rule, but doctors stood united and would not back down until the fulfilment of their demands on part of Senior Adviser Sardar Zulfikar Khosa.
He said the government only wanted to increase the salaries of house officers, medical officers and post graduate