RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: Progressive Group of Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry while announcing support to the demands of the pharmaceutical industry against “Drug Act 2017” has urged the government to immediately withdraw this law.

The group’s president Khalid Usman and LCCI Executive Committee member Arshad Chaudhry in a statement on Monday said that pharmaceutical industry was struggling against this law for the last many years and four ministers of the provincial government had assured the pharmaceutical companies for its withdrawal. Such laws are hindering growth of the local pharmaceutical industry and urged the government to restore Drug Act 1976 in its original shape, they said.