Gujranwala PMA strike on 5th

Published October 3, 2009

GUJRANWALA, Oct 2 The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) announced on Friday a strike on Monday to support Social Security hospital doctors seeking regularisation of job.

PMA Gujranwala President Dr Mian Zahid Mehmood said at a meeting all doctors of the Health Department had been regularised except for Social Security hospitals and demanded the chief minister order confirm jobs for them.

JI Jamaat-i-Islami activists staged a rally in protest against the US for its, what they deem, increasing interference in the affairs of Pakistan.

They gathered outside the district coordination office's office and demonstrated against the Kerry-Luggar bill.

Speakers asked the government not to accept US dictation and reject the bill.

They demanded that all US officials expelled from Islamabad as their activities were “dubious”.

ACCIDENT Fifteen wedding guests were injured when their bus collided with a trailer on Wazirabad Ahmad Road on Friday.

The guests were going to Dharowal from village Ramgarh. Near Khevewali, their bus collided head-on with the trailer which left 15 people injured.

Rescue 1122 officials shifted the injured to the District Headquarters hospital. Aisha and Anchel were stated to be serious and shifted to Mayo Hospital in Lahore.

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