CDL denies clearing medicine found lethal by foreign lab

Karachi: The Central Drug Testing Laboratory (CDL), Karachi, has denied Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s allegations that the CDL had cleared a medicine, Isotab, manufactured by Efroze Pharma and declared it fit for patients, saying they had not so far tested the medicine.

“The CDL received five drugs and raw material of two drugs from the Punjab and our analysis found one of the medicines, Alfagril (Clopidogril) of Alfa Pharma substandard,” Deputy-Director of the CDL Dr. Obaid Ali told The News on Wednesday.

“The medicine, Isotab-20, was not among the medicine samples sent to CDL by the Punjab government,” he clarified. Dr. Obaid Ali said initially, they received samples of five medicines and raw materials for two on January 19 and they completed the tests and sent the report to Punjab Drug Inspector and Quality Control Board on January 27, 2012.

ìThe medicine of Alfa Pharma, Alfagril, was found substandard as the medicine had dark spots on it and was discoloured. Analysis showed that it was substandard and not up to the international standardsî Dr. Obaid Ali disclosed.

He denied that CDL cleared Isotab of Efroze Pharma, saying that they received its samples later and they were currently analysing the drug on priority basis.

ìWhen we have not tested the medicine, how can we clear it and declare it safe for useî, the CDL official queried.

In reply to a query, he said that the CDL had refused to accept samples of another 12 medicines from the Punjab government that were sent to CDL for analysis as CDL did not work for the Punjab government.

ìFirst the Punjab government would have to notify that they were sending us the medicines for analysis and then they should send them to us as per rules prescribed under Drug Act, otherwise we canít accept any samples from any provincial governmentî, he said.

OS X Lion Update 10.7.3 (Server)

The 10.7.3 update is recommended for all servers currently running Lion Server. This update includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, migration and security of your server and improvements of the following services and applications:

File Sharing pane in the Server application

display number of connected userslist connected usersdisconnect specific AFP users with a messagesend a message to specific AFP usersset a login greeting message for AFP usersaccess to advanced ACL controls

VPN pane in the Server application

choice of enabling L2TP or L2TP and PPTP protocolssharing of address ranges between L2TP and PPTP (if PPTP is enabled)configure DNS name server addresses and domain names provided to VPN clientsoption to save L2TP or PPTP settings as a configuration profile

Web pane in the Server application

enable .htaccess overridesedit web sites' domain namesmap multiple domains into a single web siteconfigure redirects and aliasesspecify custom index fileschoose SSL certificates for individual websites

Wiki Server

support for editing Wiki pages from an iPad running iOS 5 or latersupport for Active Directory groupsimproved reliability for certain timezonesimproved support for an administrator-specified custom tag, protocol and inline style whitelist

Profile Manager

updated Exchange, Mail and Restrictions payloads for iOS clientsupdated Dock payloads for OS X clientsperformance improvementsallow VPN payloads to be used by both iOS and OS X clientssupport for External Account home folder locationsimproved support for managing enterprise applications

The update also includes specific fixes for:

iCal Server auto-acceptance of meetings during free timesauthenticated directory binding to Open Directory servers with Directory Utilityimproved reliability of setting up Open Directory replicascorrectly create podcasts when bound to an Active Directory server using Podcast Publisherimproved support for different certificates used for IMAP/POP and SMTP in the Server applicationimproved searching of logs in the Server applicationweb password reset support when using the Internet Explorer 9 browser

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Govt committed for uplift of education sector

QUETTA: The provincial government is making all-out efforts to ensure maximum facilities to the educational institutions in order to improve standard of education across the province.

Additional Secretary Education Balochistan said during his visit to a private college in Sibi Monday that the improved condition of schools would certainly cast positive impact on standard of education by ensuring conducive educational environment to students.

He said the provincial government provided furniture worth over Rs. 20 million to schools in the district and assured that the provincial government is committed to resolve problems of schools. (APP)

JUI-F wants opposition parties to unite for polls

PESHAWAR: Considering early elections a panacea for all problems faced by the country, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has urged all opposition parties to join hands to work out a plan for polls and pressure the government accordingly.

“We think free, fair and transparent election at the earliest is the solution to all the problems. It should be done in a legal and constitutional way. We would never support any extra-constitutional step for change,” said Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, the JUI-F central secretary general, while addressing a hurriedly called press conference here on Monday evening.

The JUI-F wants to celebrate 2012 as the year of election, but for the purpose all the opposition parties would have to unite and work out a unanimous solution with regard to the month and date for the elections, he said, adding that the JUI-F had contacted other opposition parties, mainly the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, for this purpose.

The Maulana said the government had failed on all fronts. “Robberies are taking place on national highways, law and order situation is presenting the worst picture in the country’s history, the economic situation has worsened and corruption has broken all records,” the JUI-F leader said. “One of the main reasons of the challenges facing the country is the support to the US-led alliance in the so-called war against terror. Even now there is time for the rulers to take the right decisions, otherwise it would become difficult for them to present the next budget,” he stressed. Ghafoor Haideri was in the provincial capital to condole the death of the sister-in-law of Abdul Jalil Jan, provincial secretary information of JUI-F who was present at the news conference. Ghafoor Haideri said the JUI-F had supported the government in the All Parties Conference convened by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, but the decisions taken in that conference for national security and sovereignty haven’t been implemented. He said the government made a welcome decision after the attack on check-posts in Mohmand Agency by cutting off supply line to the Nato troops in Afghanistan. The government is still sticking to that decision, he said, adding that the JUI-F would never allow resumption of the supplies. “We can even burn the Nato containers if the government dared to resume the Nato supplies,” he declared.

Pakistan Blog Awards 2011

Madiha Ishtiaque on 25, Dec 2011 | 7 Comments | in Category: Limelight

Blog Awards 2011 with all their ho-humness were all about youth and encouraging their voices to be heard across. With the aim of providing a platform to the views that usually go unheard or are stifled owing to the prevalent intolerance in the Pakistani society today, Google, PC World and Telenor came together under a common banner of Pakistan Blog Awards and arranged a two day event, Unconference and Gala Night.

The modestly glitzy Gala Night at Regent Plaza Hotel had all the right ingredients to not only make the event a big success but also to provide an incentive and a moral boost to the people who make significant efforts in bringing about a change- a common rhetoric these days.

In the backdrop of PTI’s massive success in Lahore, the idea of using social media as an effective tool in contributing to spread awareness and enlightenment is rapidly catching on. It has also brought some very talented people glutted with the art of articulation, to the limelight, so they could employ their skills to raise voices on the issues generally tuned out as Taboos. With so many bloggers revving up and social media activities on their upswing, Blog Awards served to acknowledge and honor these efforts and bring them to another level.

Some of the prominent bloggers and twitteratis present on the occasion were: Faisal Qureshi, Beena Sarwar, Ali K Chishti, Awab Alvi, Faisal Kapadia, Badar Khushnood, Rabia Gharib, Abdul Hameed Kath, Abid Beli, Jehanara .

While the event was still catching its momentum after recitation, opening speech and a tableau, Imran Khan’s sudden appearance phenomenally stoked the fire to the event. In his brief appearance, he commended the efforts of the bloggers and asserted that youth and bloggers have supported him a lot in his movement and his presence was purely with the intent of appreciating and supporting them.

Out of 25 nominations from each category, some of the blogs that won awards were:

Aisha Aijaz’s ‘My Bit for Change’ – for the Best Social Activist BlogBeena Sarwar’s (The News, Jang Group)  BlogSpot – Best Journalist BlogAli K Chishtie’s BlogSpot Best Political Coverage Blog

Pakistan Blog awards surely stand in the league of their own. Promoting the freedom of meaningful expression, such events are surely set to bring out the much needed positive change in our society.

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US hopes shift in its Afghan role by 2013

ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT: The United States hopes to shift its military role in Afghanistan from combat to training during the second half of 2013, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday.

But he said the US administration wanted to see all the NATO allies in Afghanistan — including France — “respect” a strategy adopted at a summit in Lisbon in November 2010, which calls for handing over security duties to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.

“Hopefully by the mid-to-latter part of 2013, we’ll be able to make a transition from a combat role to a train and advise and assist role, which is basically fulfilling what Lisbon was all about,” Panetta told reporters aboard his plane en route to Brussels.

“We all went in here together and we’ll all go out together, but we have to do it on the basis of a strong alliance and a strong commitment that was made in Lisbon,” said Panetta, who was due to meet NATO defense ministers in his visit to Belgium.

The NATO-led coalition this year needed to cement battlefield gains against the Taliban insurgency and to build on progress in strengthening the Afghan army and police, he said.

He said 2013 would be a “crucial” year for the final transfer of remaining areas to Afghan security forces.

“2014 becomes a year of consolidating the transition,” he said.

Panetta’s comments reaffirmed signals from President Barack Obama’s administration that after a decade of war, America’s military mission in Afghanistan will soon evolve into a supporting role with Afghan forces taking the lead in the fight against the Taliban.

It was unclear how the planned shift from combat to a mainly advisory role would affect planned troop levels for US forces.

With nearly 90,000 US troops now in Afghanistan, Panetta said that “no decision has been made with regards to the level of forces we’ll have in 2013.”

By the end of September, the number of US troops is due to drop to 68,000, following the scheduled withdrawal of a “surge force” that deployed in 2010.

The Pentagon chief sought to play down the effect of last month’s surprise announcement from French President Nicolas Sarkozy to withdraw French combat forces in 2013, a year earlier than planned under the NATO strategy.

“With regards to France, I understand why they made their decision,” Panetta said.

Despite the French withdrawal plans, he said he was “pleased” that France had indicated it would retain a longer-term military presence with troops training and advising Afghan forces.

“My hope is at that at this ministerial (in Brussels), we can discuss their decision and hopefully find a way to make sure we bring them back into the Lisbon strategy,” he said.

A senior US defense official told reporters it was possible that there was no serious gap between the French stance and NATO‘s timeline, depending on the precise details of what Paris planned.

“I think the discussions will reveal whether there’s a serious difference or not,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“What we need to discuss with the French is exactly what role they envisage playing in 2013 and 2014, whether there’s a serious difference in terms of the milestones that they envisage,” the official said. (AFP)