PESHAWAR
Taimur Saleem Jhagra, former health and finance minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday served notice on chief secretary and secretary health department asking them to initiate legal action against Young Doctor Association (YDA) for running ‘ a smear, slanderous, defamatory, fake, concocted’ campaign against him.
“That this notice is served upon you in response to a smear, slanderous, defamatory, fake, concocted, frivolous, and planned campaign against my client by an illegally constituted association by the name and style of the “Young Doctors Association” collectively and individually, the working of which comes within the ambit of the Health Department Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” it read.
The health minister has claimed that YDA has no legal status and office bearers of the association are government employees, adding that it is against the rules and regulation for a government employee to run a smear campaign on social media platforms against anyone.
As per the notice, Jhagra maintained that YDA is neither recognized by the competent authority nor it functioning within the ambit of the law.
The provincial government rules for government employees strictly forbids any official from issuing statements publicly which go in negation of the conduct rules, restricts any government servant to keep their conduct within the confines of the conduct rules, he claimed in the notice.
“Failing which, I am under the instructions of my client to initiate legal proceedings against the Health Department, and every officer/official acquiescing to this highly illegal, immoral and unlawful conduct of the illegal association by the name and style of Young Doctors Association as well as their office bearers, and in that case, you and the department shall be responsible for the consequences of litigation including costs of litigation,” said in the legal notice.
