Pharmacists seek probe into drug import from India.

ISLAMABAD -- The PakAistan Young Pharmacist AsAAsociation (PYPA) has written a letter to Special AssisAtant to the Prime Minister on Accountabi-lity Shahzad Akbar urging him to look into the import of over 450 medicines from India despite a ban.

They said the federal cabinet had been briefed that there was a shortage of medicines for cancer but a term 'Therapeutic Goods' was included in the summary to allow all kinds of medicines, vitamins, syringes and even mustard oil.

Earlier, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif demanAded investigation into the medicine scandal through a parliamentary committee.

He said if anything like this would have happened during the PML-N government, Imran Khan would have filed a treason case against the government.

Pakistan Peoples Party secretary general Nayyar Hussain Bukhari has also issued a statement demanding that a parliamentary body be formed to determine who was responsible for the multi-billion-rupee import of medicines from India despite a government ban.

In the letter, PYPA stated that in the mid of 2019, when Indian brutality crosAsed all limits in India-held Kashmir, Pakistan banned all types of trade with India.

However, a media campaign was launched that there was an acute shortage of life-saving medicines as its import had been stopped from India.

The campaign, the letter said, forced the...