Pakistan: Lahore nurses sit-in enters 5th day

The nurses yesterday had moved from Cooper Road, where they had been protesting for the last couple of days, to The Mall on Friday afternoon and held a strong protest sit-in there. This caused great traffic mess on many adjacent roads. The police baton charged the protesting nurses to disperse them, which resulted in the sad incident. Later, a large number of nurses from other hospitals joined the sit-in. Punjab Chief Minister, Shabaz Sharif, ordering for a judicial inquiry into the incident, has also constituted cabinet committee for the resolution of the problems of protesting nurses, who working for years on ad-hoc basis demanding confirmation. The committee headed by the Punjab Law Minister, Rana Sanaullah will hold talks with the aggrieved nurses. Meanwhile, Health Advisor to CM Punjab, Khawaja Salman Rafique accompanied by Lahore Division Commissioner, Rashid Mahmood Langrial and CCP, Shafique Gujar late at night reached the nurses sit-in site to hold talks, but the nurses disapproving any talks with them started voicing slogans ‘CM has to come’.