F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday summoned the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad over poor investigation in a case regarding possession of plot.
A two-member bench of the apex court, comprising Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, heard the case.
During the course of proceedings, the bench asked the IGP to inform the court about what to do with such investigating officers.
The court declared the investigating officer of Koral police station Inspector Tassaduq Hussain as dishonest. The investigating officer Tassaduq Hussain did not seem to be an honest officer, it added. The court observed that the investigating officer made room for both parties in the interim challan. The bench also observed that the investigating officer would accommodate the party fulfilling the demand in the final challan.
The court also noted that the investigating officer had not been able to determine the ownership of the land since February 16.
Later hearing of the case was adjourned until Tuesday.
Coronavirus claims 11 more lives: Sindh CM
Sher Afzal
KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah Monday said that 11 more patients died during the last 24 hours lifting the death toll stemming from the coronavirus to 200 while 537 new cases have been detected.
In a statement issued from the CM’s House, the chief minister said that 3730 COVID-19 tests were conducted which produced 14.4 percent or 537 results positive. The number of coronavirus positive cases has reached to 12,017 which was 12.6 percent of the total 95,053 tests conducted so far.
Syed Murad Ali Shah said that 11 more people lost their lives lifting the death toll to 200 which constituted 1.6 per cent of the total patients.
He added that at present 9668 patients were under treatment.
“We have kept 8178 means 84 percent of the patients under treatment in home isolation where our doctors keep them advising,” he said and added 911 patient were at Isolation Centers and 597 at different hospitals.
The chief minister said that 96 patients or 16.6 percent were in critical condition while 25 of them have been put on ventilators.
He added that 68 patients have recovered and discharged from hospitals. The number of patients recovered so far has reached to 2149 or 18 percent of the total detected cases.
Sharing the data of Karachi, Syed Murad Ali Shah said that out of total 537 new cases 432 belong to Karachi. They include 142 Malir, 62 Central, 61 East, 58 Korangi, 58 South and 51 in the West.
The chief minister said that cases were spiking in the city, therefore he has decided to establish a COVID-19 hospital in Gulshan-i-Iqbal for which he has released Rs 1.8 billion.
“It will be a 400-beded hospital with 100 ventilator facility,” he said.
Talking about flight which brought back stranded Pakistanis said that so far 2951 passengers have landed, of them 545 came positive. “The positive cases are under treatment and being cared properly,” he said.
Murad said that 22 cases were detected in Sukkur, 19 Shikarpur, 11 in Kambar-Shahdadkot, eIght in Tando Allahyar, seven in Larkna, four each in Hyderabad, Matiari and Sanghar, three in Jacobabad, each one in Badin, Jamshoro and Mirpurkhas.
The chief minister said that the markets have been opened under an standard operational procedures (SPOs) but sorry to most of shops and markets were seen crowded and people had thronged there without abiding by the SOPs.
He hoped that the people would understand the situation and would follow the SOPs.
Meanwhile, Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing &Town Planning, Religious Affairs, Forest and Wildlife Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that the agreement reached between Sindh government and traders on easing business hours was welcoming.
He said that no strict action would be taken by the Government if the traders strictly adhere to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) during business hours from 6 am to 5 pm, said a statement on Monday.
Nasir said that easing or tightening of lockdown depend on implementation of SOPs by people and members of business community. He said that those who had to go to the markets for shopping should follow the guidelines issued by the Government as the guidelines had been issued for their own protection.
“The only way to avoid getting infected with the coronavirus is to take precautions,” he said.
Nasir said that as long as people and business community continue to follow the defined SOPs, the relaxation in lock down would not be withdrawn.
