KPK: Dr Jan Baz’s arrest panics his colleagues

[ajpirzada]

PESHAWAR: The arrest of Dr Jan Baz Afridi, a former polio officer, by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission on charges of corruption has sent chill down the spines of those who held important positions in health department during the previous government, sources said.

They said that the arrest of Dr Jan Baz triggered speculations in the directorate of health as who would be next. About 12 doctors, who remained associated with Pakistan People’s Party and were appointed on key posts in the previous government, were likely to face the music, sources added.

“These doctors live beyond their known means of income and are being investigated by members of Ehtesab Commission,” they said. Widespread discussion among senior doctors, following Dr Jan Baz’s arrest by the commission, suggests that many others will soon be arrested.

The people, who remained at the helm of affairs, would be held accountable for making irregular appointments and misappropriated funds meant for the improvement of healthcare in the province, sources said.

Sources say about 12 doctors, appointed on key posts during the previous govt, are likely to face the music
The doctors, who can be arrested, include deputy directors, programme managers, medical and deputy medical superintendents in the former government as they didn’t fulfill the formalities. One of the doctors presently interrogated by the commission had got few bungalows as Marriage Hall.

Many in the directorate staff also feared action because they had been part of all decisions taken during the past 10 years or more, sources said.

A doctor, who has accumulated assets beyond his income and risked arrest, believes that the former health minister, on whose directives he allegedly made illegal appointments and took other important decisions, will come to his rescue, according to sources.

Sources said scores of administrative cadre doctors, who remained at the directorate of health during the past few years, also felt threatened by the commission because of being part of the significant decisions regarding purchases of equipment, acquisition of land and appointments.

Sources said that the commission was in the process of investigating doctors regarding their alleged corruption and irregularities. They could be arrested soon, they added.

The directorate of health has already provided relevant record to the commission about the doctors currently being investigated.

Sources said that main cases being investigated by the commission were related to Mother and Child Health Programme, Expanded Programme on Immunisation, HIV/Aids Control Programme, appointments and purchase off medicines and equipment in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Lady Reading Hospital, City Hospital and Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar and Ayub Teaching Hospital Abbottabad.

The doctors against whom interrogation are under process, know about their future.

They have also lost any hope after Jan Baz’s arrest as like them, he had also been appointed by the health minister.

The doctors, who performed their duty honestly, say that the drive should not stop till the accountability of all.

Published in Dawn, June 23rd, 2015

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[waleed3601]

Give them all life imprisonment. They've toyed with the lives of the poor people of this country.
Shameless bastards.
Good job Ehtesab Commission!

 

[Spring Onion]

if he is involved he should be punished. Though he was very supporting to media but yes there were concerns as he was being considered controversial

 

[Rusty]

Death penalty for high level corruption.
Let the rich feel some justice for once.

 

[syedali73]

Death penalty for high level corruption.
Let the rich feel some justice for once.

Not going to happen. Chill.

 

[Rusty]

Not going to happen. Chill.

that's what everyone said before the French revolution, or the Russian revolution.
The rich can only push around the poor for so long before they rebel, and history shows that when that happens, heads start to roll.

 

[Gufi]

that's what everyone said before the French revolution, or the Russian revolution.

The French revolution was bloody, pray nothing like that happens. Listen to Malcolm X Oxford Union Address I guess in 1964 am not sure. There he talks about revolutions, yes it might be necessary but pray it does not come to that

 

[syedali73]

that's what everyone said before the French revolution, or the Russian revolution.
The rich can only push around the poor for so long before they rebel, and history shows that when that happens, heads start to roll.

Pakistanis are neither French nor Russians, heck they are not even Iranians. Forget about revolution. Collectively, beyhiss aur beyghairat qoum hey. There was after all a reason why the areas that constitute present day Pakistan were always subdued by the invaders be it Arabs, or Greek, or Iranians, or Afghans, or Central Asians. Only for a brief period of time did a local Ranjeet Singh rule but that too was with support of British. Try to dig up Ayaz Ameer saheb's columns; he has dissected the psychology and myth of martial race of this region pretty well and explained why a revolution in Pakistan is not possible.