Amraiz Khan
Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said that the wounds of APS Peshawar are still alive as innocent children and their teachers were mercilessly butchered.
He was talking to the participants of a ceremony held in the main mosque of CM Office on the eve of fifth anniversary of APS Peshawar tragedy. Auqaf Minister Saeed-ul-Hasan Shah who led the prayers for the martyrs attended the ceremony. This was the worst and painful incident in the recent history.
The nation fully share the pain of bereaved heirs, Usman Buzdar added. He said that APS Peshawar carnage united the nation in war against terrorism and memories of this tragedy will forever remain alive. Assembly members Sanaullah Mastikhil, Ch. Shabaz Ahmad, officials of the CM Office, Khateeb Badshahi Masjid Maulana Abdul Khabeer Azad and others attended the prayer.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar on Monday inaugurated the five-day long province-wide anti-polio campaign by administering anti-polio drops to the children. Provincial ministers Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Raja Bashrat, Saeed-ul-Hasan Shah, assembly members Sanaullah Mastikhel, Ch. Shahbaz Ahmed Chief Secretary, Secretary (P&SH) and others were also present on the occasion. Talking on this occasion, the chief minister said that more than 50 thousand teams will administer anti-polio drops to around two crore children of less than five year age during this door to door campaign.
The Deputy Commissioners have been directed to monitor this campaign and provincial ministers have been directed to supervise it at divisional level. He asked the parents to cooperate with the anti-polio teams to make Punjab a polio-free province. Success is the only option in this continues struggle of securing the future of the children, he added. The polio virus will be eliminated with collective efforts, he emphasized.
The world is polio-free but regrettably this disease exists in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he lamented. We will have to work with renewed zeal to defeat polio as it is a national issue.
