Pakistan Tobacco Company and Pak Government:

From: Prof Javaid Khan

Email: javaid.khan@aku.edu

Dear Bobby
Please see attached a quarter page advertisement in our national news papers published on Sunday April 8, 2007.

This picture highlights the deep relationship between the various institutions of the government and the tobacco industry. Prime Minister of the country has been invited to lay the foundation stone of a park being made by the subsidiary of BAT.

On one hand the government of Pakistan claims that they are doing a lot for the control of tobacco use in the country yet they are accepting money from the tobacco industry to create a public park at Attock District (NWFP). By such collaboration tobacco industry is trying to tell the public that they are doing Nobel things for the country. Previously they also claimed that they have made mobile dispensaries for poor patient and planted million of trees in the country to help the environment.

Our government should not accept money from the tobacco industry as this money is tainted with the blood of those who have died from tobacco related diseases. Please write to the decision makers of the country to stop this partnership between the government and tobacco industry.

Please see attached fax numbers

General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan ++9251-9221388

Mr Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan ++9251-9212866

Justice Rana Bhagwandas, Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan

++9251-9213452

Thank you

Prof Javaid A. Khan, FRCP (Edin)
Nizar Noor Mohammed E. Mewawalla Professor of Medicine
Section Head of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Consultant Chest Physician
Department of Medicine
The Aga Khan University