FM urges all the stakeholders to work collectively to defeat the Coronavirus

FM urges all the stakeholders to work collectively to defeat the Coronavirus which has engulfed the whole world.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said, while speaking at the Senate on Tuesday.

The upper house bicameral parliament is holding discussion on the situation arising out of Covid-19.

FM urges all the stakeholders

While calling it a national emergency, he emphasized all the stakeholders will have to work collectively to defeat the virus.

The Foreign Minister also expressed the optimism to collectively surmount the challenge posed by coronavirus.

He said the national strategy against the contagion has been chalked out after taking inputs from all the federating units.

He said the National Coordination Committee and National Command and Operation Center have been established to accommodate the inputs of the provinces.

Shah Mahmood  said the Prime Minister daily holds meetings and give directions to cope with the current situation. He asked the opposition parties not to do politics on the pandemic.

The foreign minister said we have to protect the people from Coronavirus, poverty and starvation.

He said it will take time to flatten the curve of the virus.

In this background, the question arises as to whether the country can sustain a prolonged lockdown.

He said despite difficult economic situation, we have given a stimulus package of 1.2 trillion rupees.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said under expanded Ehsaas Program, twelve million deserving families are being provided with cash assistance.

He said the funds in the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund will be used to support those who lost jobs due to the lockdown.

Alluding to the situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Foreign Minister said the situation is very serious there.

He said BJP government has intensified its persecution campaign in the occupied territory as under the garb of coronavirus, the occupying Indian forces have started barging into houses and killing the innocent and armless Kashmiri people.

India’s anti Muslim hate campaign

The FM said a hate mongering campaign has also been started against Muslims in India.

Meanwhile, at the outset, the house offered fateha for those died due to Coronavirus and the soldiers martyred in recent Kech attack.

Prayers were also offered for the early recovery of those tested positive for Covid-19 including Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser.

GTV