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Pakistan: top court’s order for health

d.simpson@iath.org

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After years of doing nothing to regulate one of the international tobacco industry’s most profitable adventure playgrounds, and only passing legislation that it seemed to have no intention of enforcing, the government of Pakistan has at last been ordered by the highest court in the land to take tobacco control, and its own laws, more seriously.

The country’s Supreme Court has the power to take up any issues it considers to be a matter of public importance, and will sometimes act simply on the basis of press reports. More usually, it considers specific requests for justice, as in this case. Pakistan’s leading tobacco control advocate, respiratory physician Professor Javaid Khan of the Aga Khan University in Karachi, wrote to the court in March - it cost only his time and knowledge to present the case for action - detailing Pakistan’s appalling tobacco problem, and the catalogue of inaction by the . . . [Full text of this article]