Pharmaceutical Review (Staff Reporter); On behalf of the Pharmacist Alliance, Pakistan Pharmacist Association; we would like to address the current issue of unprincipled and illegal 8th International Pharmacy Conference and Exhibition being organized in Lahore from 30th October to 2nd November, 2013. We are not against any scientific activity. But; we strongly condemn the bad intention of Professional Group of Pakistan Pharmacist Association. We have explicit reservations as under;
1 Profession group have no mandate of pharmacist community to design any activity on behalf of PPA.
2 The official legitimated tenure of professional Group has already been expired since October, 2011(defined in Article of Association Part II. Subsection 19; page 16; https://pharmaceuticalsreview.com/content-upload/uploads//2012/03/article-of-association-constitution.pdf).
3 Professional Group is misusing the official funds, resources and intellectual property of Pakistan Pharmacist Association.
Hence; we have filed a writ petition against profession group of PPA. The honorable Judge Mr. Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan Islamabad High Court Islamabad has called to Syed Khalid Saeed Bukhari President PPA Centre, WHO Country Adviser Medicines at World Health Organization, Pakistan; Mr. Ayaz Ali Khan Chairman Organizing Committee/ Chief Drugs Controller, Health Department, Government of the Punjab, Lahore/ Executive Member PPA Punjab and Mr. Nadeem Iqbal General Secretary PPA Centre to explain the situation. If professional group of PPA did not stop to violate the regulation and held this unprincipled conference; a damage recovery may then be imposed by court.
It’s again stated that “we are not against conference” or any such professional/ scientific activity i.e. seminar, workshop, colloquium, practicum etc. We have very clear and unambiguous view point. We condemn and fight until the last moment of this unprincipled and illegal 8th International Pharmacy Conference. Even if the so called “Organizing Committee” held this conference; they have to come into court and face the consequences to pay the damage recovery of PPA.