PESHAWAR — The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Mian Saqib Nisar here Friday ordered Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s Healthcare Commission to shut down clinics of all fake doctors in the province within a week.

The Supreme Court’s three-member bench presided over by Chief Justice of Pakistan comprising Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah took case against quacks operating in different parts of the province and ordered the Chairman of KP Healthcare Commission to shut the down clinics of all such ‘doctors’ in the province. They gave him a week’s time to take action.

The CJP grilled the Chairman of the Healthcare Commission for not doing enough in this regard and remarked, “You draw a salary of Rs500,000, but your output is zero. It is your duty to take action on this important matter as it involves human lives.”

“What kind of a province is this where the Chief Secretary earns Rs180,000 and the Chairman of the Healthcare Commission receives half-a-million?” asked the CJP.

He asked for a comprehensive inquiry report on this key issue after he was told by the Chairman that about 1,500 quacks doctors were operating in KP. The Chairman informed the CJP that action had been taken against 122 clinics run by quacks.

In another case related to pProtocol, the CJP expressed satisfaction over the performance of Inspector General of Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Salahuddin Khan Masud with regard to improvement in security situation in the province.

While submitting his detailed report in Supreme Court’s registry today, IGP KP told the CJP that security protocol had been withdrawn from 1,769 unrelated persons on the court’s orders.

At this, the Justice Saqib Nisar commended the IGP and said, “You have done excellent work. Thank you.” The Chief Justice also expressed satisfaction over the conduct and good work of Chief Secretary Azam Khan.

The IGP KP later told media persons that the CJP had praised his force, and said his appreciation by the apex court was in fact appreciation of the entire police force.

Masud said police were already working on a plan to withdraw unnecessary security provided to influential and public figures, adding security protocol in the province would also be withdrawn in phases.

On Thursday last, the Chief Justice Pakistan had ordered IGPs to withdraw security protocol granted to unrelated persons in all the provinces.

In another case pertaining to supply of potable water in the province, the apex court ordered the authorities concerned to collect water samples from different locations of the province and get them tested at a reputable Punjab laboratory to check their quality.

The Chief Justice then asked officials present in court how could they get the testing done when KP did not have the required laboratory or technical machinery for it.

The apex court also heard the plea of a woman who has been seeking her ‘Haq Mehr’ for the past several decades and ordered the authorities to assist her.

On Thursday last, the CJP had summoned the Chief Minister of KP, Pervez Khattak, and told him that he had heard a lot about their good governance but the situation on ground was different.

The bench expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of the KP government in the social sector including health, education and provision of potable water and regretted that not a single hospital or school of good standard had been set up in the provincial capital by the government over the past five years.

The Chief Justice, who was on a two-day official visit to Peshawar, took up a number of cases pertaining to social welfare and civic facilities.