Tag: PIC Lahore

  • Lawyer reportedly disguised himself as a patient following PIC protest

    Lawyer reportedly disguised himself as a patient following PIC protest

    A lawyer who was among the violent protesters who attacked the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore disguised himself as a patient and was escorted out of the hospital on a wheelchair by the police.

    According to a report by Samaa News, the lawyer clashed with the police earlier outside the hospital gate. However, he was later seen leaving the hospital on a wheelchair in a blue hospital gown.

    Further details on the lawyer and if any action has been initiated against him are not known as yet.

    Lawyers on Wednesday stormed the emergency ward of the PIC, vandalising public property, setting a police vehicle on fire and attacking provincial minister Fayyaz ul Hasan Chohan.

    The attack resulted into deaths of four people, while several patients were forced out of the building to sit on footpaths. The mob also destroyed millions worth of health equipment inside the hospital and caused damaged to the hospital building.

  • ‘Beyond dismayed’: Mehwish, Mahira, Shaan condemn lawyers’ violent protest

    ‘Beyond dismayed’: Mehwish, Mahira, Shaan condemn lawyers’ violent protest

    Following the attack by lawyers on the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) on Wednesday, in which four people died, actors Mehwish Hayat, Shaan and Mahira Khan took to social media to condemn the incident and voice their concern.

    Heer Maan Ja actors Ali Rehman Khan and Faizan Shaikh also condemned the incident.

    Lawyers on Wednesday stormed the emergency ward of the PIC, vandalising public property, setting a police vehicle on fire and attacking provincial minister Fayyaz ul Hasan Chohan.

    The attack resulted into deaths of four people, while several patients were forced out of the building to sit on footpaths. The mob also destroyed millions worth of health equipment inside the hospital and caused damaged to the hospital building.

  • Punjab IG’s office to also be protected by Rangers after lawyers’ protest

    Punjab IG’s office to also be protected by Rangers after lawyers’ protest

    Following the attack on the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), the government has decided to deploy Rangers at important locations of the city including IGP [Inspector General of Police] office.

    Journalist Talat Hussain in his recent tweet has shared an official order from the government in which the interior ministry has directed the home department to deploy of rangers outside state institutes for maintainance of law and order in the city.

    According to the interior ministry’s order, 10 platoons and two companies of the paramilitary force have been deployed in the city. Other important places where platoons will be stationed include Governor House and at the area surrounding Lahore GOR I and II among others.

    The paramilitary force has been deployed under the Pakistan Rangers Ordinance 1959 provision seven and 10.

    Lawyers on Wednesday stormed the emergency ward of the PIC, vandalising public property, setting a police vehicle on fire and attacking provincial minister Fayyaz ul Hasan Chohan.

    The attack resulted into deaths of four people, while several patients were forced out of the building to sit on footpaths. The mob also destroyed millions worth of health equipment inside the hospital and caused damaged to the hospital building.