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Drug scam: Pakistan faces medicine shortage
Updated On: 20 April, 2012 11:44 AM IST | | IANS
Pakistan's pharmaceutical industry has been hit hard by a Rs.7 billion drug scam in which Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son has been named an accused. It has caused non-availability of controlled substances in the country, said a media report.
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Gilani Thursday directed his son Ali Musa Gilani to cut short his trip to South Africa after he had been named an accused in a pharma scam in a petition filed in the Supreme Court.
The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) named eight accused in its petition, including Musa Gilani, the prime minister's principal secretary Khushnood Lashari and drug controller Sheikh Ansar.
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