Melbourne, Apr 7 (ANI): A woman has demanded a Hope Valley nursing home in South Australia to remove decorative Buddhist statues, saying that they are “stressful” for Christian residents including her 89-year-old father-in-law.
Ruth Thompson, of Vista, has lodged a complaint with the ACH Group’s Highercombe aged care home, which opened late last year.
At least half a dozen statues of Buddha, about 60cm tall, adorn communal areas, Thompson said.
“We’re so agitated and annoyed about it … that leading up to Easter they’re still there,” she told the Leader Messenger last week.
“It’s very stressful for the older people to see this sort of thing. We are committed Christians and we don’t want Buddhist statues in our faces all the time,” News.com.au quoted Thompson, as saying.
Thompson said she was told that several others had made similar complaints when she raised the issue with staff at the home.
However, ACH Group general manager of residential services Greg Adey said there had been no other complaints from the more than 60 residents or their families.
Adey said the statues were purely decorative and would not be removed. “She’s confusing decorative Asian items with a religious message,” he said. (ANI)
Musharraf power theft scandal case: Low level workers punished
Islamabad, Sep 17 (ANI): The Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) has only punished 64 junior officers for their involvement in the power theft scandal involving former President Pervez Musharraf, Shaukat Aziz and others in the luxurious Chak Shahzad farmhouses.
The big guns in the electricity department have not even been touched, according to well-placed sources.
The list of punished employees includes 35-meter readers, 14 line superintendents and 15 sub-divisional officers, The News reports.
Sources said these personnel were those who had to implement the orders of the higher-ups and no high-ranking official has been touched in the order passed by Iesco on 10-9-2009.
The official spokesman for Iesco, Ameer Hussain Chaman, when asked about the punishment, said he was not aware of any such punishments.
“I have not been conveyed any such details, therefore, I cannot offer any comment over the issue,” he added.
Sources said Colonel Umer Hayat was conducting the inquiry and on 9-9-2009 his tenure was completed and on 10-09-2009 these personnel were punished.
They say that in this power-theft scandal the higher-ups passed all the orders and the junior officers had no option, but to obey the orders.
It is worth mentioning here that Musharraf had constructed a modern house on the farm obtained for breeding poultry and vegetables, but the ex-general has been enjoying the cheapest power tariff, D-2(1) connection, which is meant for agriculture tube wells and lift irrigation pumps. (ANI)