F.P. Report
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing &Town Planning, Religious Affairs, Forest and Wildlife Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that according to the medical experts, the month of May was very dangerous for Pakistan with regard to the spread of Coronavirus, therefore, according to these experts, lock down should be further tightened in the month of May.
He said on Thursday that the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) had also warned all the countries that if they did not opted for more effective lock down in their respective countries, the Coronavirus would spread so fast that it would be impossible to control it. “Therefore, we should make decisions based on facts rather than emotions,” he said.
Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said that the Sindh government also cared about the sentiments and businesses of the people, but the facts did not allow us to let all the businesses open at once.
The provincial Information Minister said that the first thing that waa important was to save the lives of the people. “If we don’t focus on saving people’s lives and taking care of their health, then our health system will collapse, as unfortunately it is not strong enough to tackle a pandemic like the Coronavirus,” he added. While citing the example of Balochistan, he said that this was the reason that forced the Balochistan government to extend the lock down in the province until May 19. Praising the Balochistan government, the provincial Information Minister also said that if such a decision had been taken by the Sindh government, the federal spokespersons would had been lashing out at the Sindh government constantly.
He said that because this decision was taken by the government in Balochistan, no one criticized it, while the Sindh government had been constantly portrayed as an enemy of the people or as villain. He while lamenting this double standard said that the Sindh government had always been criticized without any reason. Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said that if the Sindh government was stressing for a severe lockdown in the month of May, it was because of saving lives and taking care of health of the people, adding that, there was personal gain involved in it. He clarified that the decision of lock down till May 9 was taken by the federal government and which was announced by the federal minister and not by any minister of the Sindh government.
Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said that it was very surprising that today that Federal Minister had changed his opnion by saying that all this was going wrong and people should be given leniency in the lock down. The provincial information minister said that people should also think about the double standards of the federal government before criticizing the Sindh government. He said that only Sindh government was being portrayed as the enemy of the poor, while a uniform policy was being implemented in the whole country.
