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Aseefa promises to take up problems with CM

Karachi The daughter of former President Asif Ali Zardari, Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari, visited the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical College (SMBBMC) in Lyari and assured the staff and students that she will talk to the Sindh chief minister for the resolution of their problems. Aseefa was accompanied by Sindh Assembly’s deputy

By M Waqar Bhatti
October 13, 2015
Karachi
The daughter of former President Asif Ali Zardari, Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari, visited the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical College (SMBBMC) in Lyari and assured the staff and students that she will talk to the Sindh chief minister for the resolution of their problems.
Aseefa was accompanied by Sindh Assembly’s deputy speaker Shehla Raza and the purpose of her visit was to personally ascertain the requirements for improvement in the affairs and state of the educational institution.
On the occasion she observed that the college was established in the light of the vision of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto for a progressive, prosperous and educated Lyari.
During her visit to the college, she was briefed by the SMBBMC principal Prof Anjum Rehman. Aseefa also talked and mingled with the students and exchanged pleasantries with them. The students were also excited to see Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari and took selfies with her.
She expressed pleasure that the institute had been promoted to an A-category college only after four years of its establishment and the first batch of 100 students will be graduating within the next few months.
She urged the to-be doctors to go serve in their own areas, especially those which had meagre resources and health facilities.
Also speaking on the occasion, deputy speaker Shehla Raza deplored that students of Lyari medical college had been ignore in the prime minister’s laptop scheme. However, she said, the provincial government would try to compensate the students in this regard.
She claimed that development works in Lyari had only been carried out during the tenures Pakistan People’s Party and cited the establishment of Lyari General Hospital as an example to make her point.