Punjab admin asked to implement guidelines for corona victims burial
National
April 4, 2021
LAHORE: The majority of the families of Covid-19 victims are not following the SOPs issued by Primary and Secondary Health Department during their burial.
Commissioner Lahore Division took notice of this issue and directed the district administration to ensure implementation of the burial guidelines of Primary and Secondary Health Department.
Following the direction of the commissioner, Deputy Commissioner Lahore Mudassar Riaz wrote a letter to 18 public and private hospitals and directed them to implement SOPs for burial of patients who died due to Corona.
Sources in the district administration revealed that the commissioner got many reports that regular funerals of patients died due to Covid-19 had been carried out in the city.
A conversation on riba
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The writer is a senior political economist based in Islamabad. He can be reached at [email protected]
Last week, the Press Council of International Affairs (PCIA), a think platform convened by veteran journalist Asadullah Ghalib, organised a conversation in Lahore on riba. It was hosted by a realtor, Iftikhar Sindhu, who had challenged the “antis” in the first place in the WhatsApp substitute forced by the current pandemic. Farid Paracha, one of the petitioners at the Shariat Court for the implementation of the decades-old ruling to eliminate riba, traced the history of official intransigence. He quoted from the Quaid’s speech at the inauguration of the State Bank, the Objectives Resolution and Article 38F of the 1973 Constitution. Ather Waheed opined that the unimplemented judgments by the Shariat and Supreme Courts sorted out nearly all c