Still missing: Protests continue over kidnapped doctors
The protesters chanted slogans and displayed banners outside the university, on Friday.
KARACHI:
Students and faculty members of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) continued to protest against the kidnapping of two doctors from Jacobabad.
The protesters chanted slogans and displayed banners outside the university, on Friday.
They demanded the government take concrete steps to locate the men, who have been missing for almost two weeks.
At least 10 doctors have been abducted in the last six months, and 15 have been killed this year, said Sindh Pakistan Medical Association President Dr Samrina Hashmi.
The kidnapped doctors, Prof. Dr Imtiaz Ali Wagan of DUHS and Dr Azhar Ali Shah of Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College, went missing on November 20, while returning from Jacobabad to Sukkur. The vehicle that they were traveling in was found abandoned near a vegetable market in Jacobabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2011.
Students and faculty members of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) continued to protest against the kidnapping of two doctors from Jacobabad.
The protesters chanted slogans and displayed banners outside the university, on Friday.
They demanded the government take concrete steps to locate the men, who have been missing for almost two weeks.
At least 10 doctors have been abducted in the last six months, and 15 have been killed this year, said Sindh Pakistan Medical Association President Dr Samrina Hashmi.
The kidnapped doctors, Prof. Dr Imtiaz Ali Wagan of DUHS and Dr Azhar Ali Shah of Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College, went missing on November 20, while returning from Jacobabad to Sukkur. The vehicle that they were traveling in was found abandoned near a vegetable market in Jacobabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2011.