The News international, Kinnch!, Saturday, July 91, 2026

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Life-saving drugs
_ disappear as
105 price cases


Alleged
procurement fraud

NAB gets
‘T-day remand
of accused
_Bureag Report

PESHAWAR; A special
accountability court here


:                                                                                                                                                                     /    on Friday remanded a sus-
®                                                                                                       Cee ee pect into the custody of the
Ye    National Accountabitity
(a    Bureau (NAB) for seven
.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               days in a reference invohing
alleged corruption and irregu-
“py Mi Wagar Bhat     ... Officials of the Drug Reg- policy and recommenda-|f                                                                                                                                                                         larities in procurement at the
‘                                          ulatory Authority of Paki- tions were forwarded to the                                                                                                                                                                         Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of stan (DRAP) confirmed that government. The final deci                                                                                                                                                                Department's Medicine Coor-
thousands of patients with prices of 105 hardship-cat- sion rests with the federal                                                                                                                                                     dination Cell _.
cancer, heart disease, glaue egory medicines have cabinct and the government  ISLAMABAD:  Chairman Senate Yousuf Raza Gifant holding discussions with Dr Mohammad Bin Abdutkarim Al- Issa,       ‘The order was issued by
coma and other lifethreat- remained pending since has to decide in what it con- | Secretary General of the Muslim World League, at the Parliament House, Friday.—PPI                                            Judge Muhammad Hamid
ening illnesses are facing February 2024 despite rec siders the lager public inter-                                                                                                                                                                                Mughal during a hearing of a
severe hardship as short: gramendations by the Drug eet ote said   h .         Si    SHO.                         ..       bee        oy     .            .         .     elerence related to alleged
ages of several essential Pricing Committee. The            almologists have                                                                y                            7        _         ~                     lement,        oO      -
medicines have worsened officlas familiar with the also warned about short| LX          s         Pakistan  iY Loves.  to  slash    Tic funds and irregularities in
across Pakistan.                   process said the committee ages of pilocarpine eye         '        na d   d                                                                                                                           the procurement of medicines.
fede, crisis follows the  Yound Production of several drops used in glaucoma and] ~ suspen   e   )                                                                                                                     and medical equipment.  ~
eral government's fail- essential medicines com- emergency eye conditions,                 :                                                                                                                    ring the proceedings,
ure to decide on recom- mercially unviable because while cardiologists describe  18 transferred      red ta    e  | I l  ‘dai             sector     the suspect, Karnran Anjum,
mended price increases of soaring manufacturing streptokinase as a life-sav-                                                                                                                 was produced under tight
for 105 hardship-category costs and recommended ing clot-dissolving medicine                                                                                                security. ~
medicines for more than price adjustments under for heart attack patients,   in Peshawar        Targets Rs58bn in Sindh savings;  CCI food safety ~         NAB Special Prosecu-
two and a half years, fore- the Drug Pricing Policy. The  particularly  where more                                                                                                             ’                                        tor Habibullah Baig told the
ing many manufacturers to cases were subsequently for- expensive alternatives are          Bureay Report             decision on uniform provincial standards still stalled    Court that the suspect owns
halt production. Among the warded through the Ministry unavailable.    woe        meet    es                                                                    two private pharmaceutical
medicines either unavail- of National Health Services, Abdul Samad, chairman  PESHAWAR: .Police               By israr Khon           and ‘officials from federal      . Haroon Akhtar Khan said  companies and was
‘able or in critically short Regulations and Coordina- of the Pakistan Chemists] authorities on Friday car-                                ‘and provincial departments, overlapping tules are deter-| after Accountability Court
supply are oral morphine tion to the federal cabinet. ‘and Druggists Assocla-|ried out 2 major reshuffle  ISLAMABAD:  Pakistan's examined a sector that con  ring foreign direct invest-| No. 3 rejected his pre-arest
capsules (10mg and 30mg) . However, despite the tion (PCDA), said that|in the capital city's police] Cabinet Committee on Reg- tributes roughly Hi per cent: ment and urged a mindset | bail application. He alleged
for severe cancer pain, passage of more than two the prolonged failure to| force, suspending six sta-|ulatory Reforms (CCoRR) to Pakistan's GDP and sus- shift toward growth over] that the suspect had secured
streptokinase injections and a half years, no final revise prices of essential | tion house officers (SHOs) | unveiled a sweeping plan tains nearly eight million revenue collection >         supply orders worth more
for heart attacks, chemo- decision has been taken, medicines was creating aJand posting 18 others to| Friday to cut bureaucratic rural families. Pakistan is _- Pakistan Business Coun-|than Rs! billion... .....
therapy medicines includ- leaving manufacturers vacuum increasingly being|new assignments as part/hurdles in the dairy and the world’s fourth-largest cil Chairperson Dr. Zeelaf| - According to the prose-
ing cisplatin, carboplatin unwilling or unable to con- filled by counterfcit and] of efforts to improve law] beverage sector, with dairy producer,             Munir contrasted Paki-|cution, the suspect submit-
and doxorubicin, pediatric tinue producing many of spurious drugs, including] and order.                  reforms in Sindh alone pro... Officials singled out. stan’s fragmented approach| ted fake delivery challans
digoxin liquid, pilocarpine these medicines,              * cancer medicines and other| According to a notifi- jected to slash paperwork ‘Sindh as the epicenter of with India’s competitive, | and was involved in alleged

eye drops, yellow fevervace _ A senior DRAP offi- lifesaving products.    . | cation, Inspector Hashmat
cine, active form of folic cial, requesting anonymity Officials of the Pakl-|Khan and Sub-Inspector
acid required for “folinic because he was hot author> stan Pharmaceutical Man-|Subhanullah, Sub-Inspector
rescue” after chemotherapy ised to speak publicly, ufacturers’ Association| Tariq Jamal, Sub-Inspec-
to reverse bone marrow acknowledged shortages (PPMA) urged the federal|tor Muhammad Rafiq and
suppression and several of several medicines but government to immediately | Inspector Tehsinullah trans-
immunoglobulin products, maintained that the DRAP approve DRAP recommen-|fer to Police Lines after
according to pharmaceu- hadcompletedits regulatory dations for all 105 med-| suspension.

tical industry officials and responsibility. “The cases icines so manufacturers] . Another SHO Majid
DRAP sources, _       “were processed under the could resume production, |Khan of the Regt Model

Jus tice Minhas replaces Justice T. ahir    and an inquiry has been
‘on JHC administrative body

ordered against him for

gross misconduct after Kid-
napping in his area..~ *

Capital City Police

Officer Dr Mian Sseed has

ISLAMABAD; ‘The Islama- with the approval of THC tice Muhammad Asif and] directed all the SHOs to

bad High Court CHC) has ChicfJustice Sardar Muham- Justice Muhammad Azam

reconstituted {ts adminis- mad Sarfraz, Dogar, the chief Khan will continue to serve

trative committee, replac- justice will continue to head as members,

Ing Justice Arbab Muham- thecommitiee. .. .     The administrative com- criminals and ensuring

mad Tahir with Justice © Under the revised com- mittee is responsible for|law and order. They were


improve performance and

serve the people to the

best, along with going after

Inaam Amecn Minhas as a position, Justice Minhas making key administrative | directed that action will be

member.                has been inducted into decisions relating to the|taken against them too if

According toa notificas  the committee in place of functioning and management | they failed to improve law