Pharmaceutical Review (www.pharmarev.com). Mr. Khalid Saeed Bukhari, President PPA centre and Country Advisor Medicine WHO Member Core Committee PCP, Health System Strengthening and Policy Unit, HSA, Ministry of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad and Mr. Ayaz Ali Khan, Executive member PPA Punjab and Specialist Medical Product and Technology/ Member Core Committee of PCP, Health System Strengthening and Policy Unit, HSA, Ministry of Health, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad has approved the preliminary six year Pharm-D program proposed by Higher Education Commission, Islamabad. The meeting of National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) was held on June 6-8, 2011 at HEC Regional Centre, Karachi to finalize the draft Curriculum for Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm-D) Program and will be enforced from next coming academic session of 2012.
While in the mean time; Professor Dr. Bashir Ahmad (Professor of pharmacology, University of the Punjab, Lahore) president PPA Punjab; Syed Sultan Agha president PPA Baluchistan; Fiaz Ahmad Faizi Vice president PPA Punjab and Furqan K. Hashmi General Secretary PPA Punjab have collectively disapproved the preliminary revised six year curriculum. They said it is the personal unfair opinion of Mr. Khalid Saeed Bukhari; they will oppose him at every forum to save this noble profession of pharmacy. Thus; there is big confliction of opinion regarding this issue among the central and provincial command of Pakistan Pharmacist Association.
Moreover; the executives of Pakistan Pharmacist Federation; Dr. Abdul Haleem Khan Chief Pharmacist Jinnah Hospital Lahore; Dr. Taha Nazir Ph.D. Associate Professor, Riphah Institurte of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Islamabad, Dr. Tahir Farooq Arqam Pharmacy, Old Satellite Town, Sargodha, Malik Muhammad Irshad Hospital Pharmacist Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Saeed; Ph.D. Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Dept. of Pharmacy, University of thePeshawar; Abdul Aleem Awan HazaraUniversity, Mansehra, KPK, Jumshaid Ahmad Director Marketing, Pharmevo Ltd., Karachi; Dr. Syed Muzzammil Masood Zaidi Islamabad; Mr. Iradat Hussain Lecturer Margalla Institute of Health Sciences, Gulraiz, Ialamabad; Dr. Haroon Arshad University of Sargodha; Dr. M. Shoaib Zafar, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad and Hafiz Muhammad Abdullah Gulshen-e-Madina Colony, Bhakhar has disapproved this new preliminary six year scheme of Pharm-D proposed by HEC, Pakistan.