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Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has decided not to prescribe medicines of Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Germany, France based multinational companies and complete boycott would be observed as a protest against the publication of blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Briefing about the decision of PMA, Professor Dr Salman Waris (President), Dr Shahid Rao (General Secretary) told, "we have appealed to all medical practitioners, professors, specialists, and doctors not to prescribe the medicines of such countries which had published the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and boycott multinational companies based in these states."
They said that we would prescribe and use alternate medicines in future till the public apology from the sinners.
All Pakistan Chemists and Druggists Association (APCDA) has announced to boycott the medicines of "Novo-Nordisk" (A pharmaceutical company of Denmark) and other medicines of such countries who had reproduced these caricatures and appealed to all the member to remove these medicines from their medical stores, shops and warehouses and asked the medical practitioners not to subscribe these medicines.
It has been decided at a meeting chaired by Zahid Bakhtawari, Vice President. Later he told newsmen, "we have decided unanimously in our Rawalpindi meeting chaired by Central President Tariq Saeed to boycott the drugs of such countries, which had published the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)."
He further said, "we would bear financial loss but we cannot afford to do our business at the cost of blasphemy. "The All Pakistan Chemist and Druggist Association (APCDA) demanded the doctors and chemist community from across the country to boycott the Denmark-made medicines as a protest against the sacrilegious caricatures published in the Denmark newspaper.
At a hurriedly called press conference here, the APCDA demanded the doctors not to prescribe the medicines made by Novo Nordisk and also asked the chemist and druggist community to boycott these medicines. The press conference was headed by vice-president of PCDA Zahid Bakhtawri and attended by members of Central Executive Committee Kashif Riaz, Noor Waris Khattak. A resolution was also passed during the press conference asking government to lodge protest against the Denmark government for publishing sacrilegious cartoons and press it to apologise the Muslim Ummah.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2006

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