LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has suspended Sahiwal Assistant Commissioner (Revenue) Ayub Bokhari, Assistant Commissioner (General) Babar Suleman and Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Akhtar Raza, who allegedly barged into a girl’s hostel of the DHQ teaching hospital, Sahiwal, in an attempt to force doctors to act as ushers for a VVIP visit to Qadirabad power project coal field.
Expressing anger over the incident, the chief minister has further ordered an inquiry against them under the Punjab Employees Efficiency, Discipline and Accountability Act 2006, (PEEDA Act).
However, AC Ayub Bokhari while talking to Pakistan Today on Friday said he had entered into girl’s hostel with the permission of the head of the medical college and followed due procedure and decorum. He rejected allegations levelled against him, and blamed the doctors’ mafia against whom he had taken action on June 16 under PEEDA Act, he added. He claimed that he was serving the hospital for last one year; absentee and negligent doctors were spreading false propaganda against him.
Talking to Pakistan Today, the vice-president of Association of Provincial Management Service (PMS) officers, Abdul Razak Dogar, denied the allegations against the PMS officers and also blamed doctors for disrespecting the dutiful officers.
“Negative propaganda of absentee doctors had led to the suspension of the assistant commissioners. We condemn this act. We have called a meeting of the association to devise a future line of action. We will not let our PMS officers get humiliated at the hands of doctor mafia,” he held.
