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ISLAMABAD<\/strong>: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has sought the\u00a0report\u00a0submitted to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the\u00a0fire\u00a0at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and details of the action taken, while also questioning the culpability of the hospital\u2019s executive director (ED).<\/p>\n

Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfaraz Dogar passed the directions while hearing two separate petitions related to the Pims tragedy.<\/p>\n

During the hearing of a petition filed by lawyer Qasim Iqbal Jalali seeking a judicial inquiry into the incident, Additional Attorney General (AAG) Rashid Hafeez, Deputy Attorney General Faisal Irfan and Assistant Attorney General Azmat Bashir Tarar appeared before the court.<\/p>\n

Justice Dogar termed the Pims fire a \u201cterrible incident\u201d and observed that the loss of 14 children was extremely serious.<\/p>\n

The petitioner\u2019s counsel argued that the government had constituted committees comprising bureaucrats, questioning how the officials of one department could conduct an inquiry into their own colleagues.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can bureaucrats inquire into their own department?\u201d the counsel asked.<\/p>\n

The chief justice questioned the legal basis of the request for a judicial inquiry, asking the lawyer under which law the court could order such an inquiry and where the Inquiry Act empowered the IHC to issue such directives.<\/p>\n

The counsel referred to the commission constituted after the\u00a0Punjab Institute of Cardiology incident. The chief justice observed that the said commission had not been constituted by the court, adding that such matters fell within the government\u2019s domain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is any matter with us, I will ask one of my judges to look into it,\u201d Justice Dogar remarked.<\/p>\n

The counsel maintained that \u201cno one can be the judge of his own actions\u201d and argued that responsibility had not been fixed in the inquiry report submitted so far.<\/p>\n

AAG Hafeez informed the court that the health secretary had been\u00a0suspended\u00a0on the day of the incident, while hospital officials had subsequently been\u00a0suspended\u00a0on the basis of an interim inquiry report.<\/p>\n

Justice Dogar again termed the incident extremely tragic and asked whether any action was still being taken and whether there was any restriction preventing the court from passing an order.<\/p>\n

The court sought the report submitted to the prime minister, along with details of the action taken so far and directed the federation to submit a detailed response.<\/p>\n

A separate petition also sought removal of the Pims ED from office \u2014 who has already been suspended \u2014 and action over the tragedy. The petitioner\u2019s counsel highlighted the conditions at the hospital and questioned the utilisation of its massive budget.<\/p>\n

The counsel told the court that the deaths of the children were horrific and requested that the Pims ED be removed from his post.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can the court give a direction to remove him from the post?\u201d Chief Justice Dogar asked.<\/p>\n

The counsel contended that Pims has an annual budget of around Rs20 to Rs22 billion, yet several children were being accommodated on a single bed. He questioned where the budget was being spent and urged the court to order the executive director\u2019s removal and return his services to his parent department.<\/p>\n

The chief justice observed that he believed the Pims ED had already been removed from the post, referring to the\u00a0prime minister\u2019s orders\u00a0to suspend Prof Dr Imran Sikandar and seven others. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Chief Executive Officer Dr Mohammad Salman has\u00a0taken charge of the post after being appointed as the acting Pims ED.<\/p>\n

The counsel replied that although the ED had been removed, no responsibility had been fixed against him and he had not been held responsible in the inquiry report either.<\/p>\n

AAG Hafeez told the court that the report currently available was only an interim report and that the complete inquiry report would be submitted within five days.<\/p>\n

The chief justice specifically asked whether responsibility had so far been fixed against the Pims ED. The court sought a report on the matter and adjourned the hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has sought the\u00a0report\u00a0submitted to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the\u00a0fire\u00a0at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and details of the action taken, while also questioning the culpability of the hospital\u2019s executive director (ED). 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