PM Shehbaz urged to cap medicine prices

ISLAMABAD: As prices of medicines have been rapidly increasing in the country, a former deputy director of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) has urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to play his role for regulating prices of medicines.

In a letter available with Dawn, Dr Muhammad Aleem Akhter said the prices of medicines were deregulated against public and national interest.

He said that the Drap Act, 2012, clearly empowers the authority to fix prices of all drugs and...