Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Secretary Information Dr Nafisa Shah, PPP Deputy Secretary Information Palwasha Khan and Senator Rubina Khalid in a joint press conference at the media office Islamabad have demanded to convene a parliament session so that the relief package by the federal government can be approved.
Otherwise, this package will be deemed as illegal because a large amount of this package is being used on daily expenses.
The PPP women leaders said that PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in the very beginning had said that we have to fight COVID-19 together, but the federal government is at war with the PPP and Sind government. They said that doctors held a press conference in Karachi yesterday and informed the nation that Covid-19 is spreading with an alarming speed and demanded strict lockdown to contain this disease. They demanded that a policy on a national level should be chalked out keeping the direction and warning of the WHO.
They said that the prime minister has taken his begging bowl to the Pakistanis living abroad without realizing that the Pakistani Diaspora is in immense difficulty in Europe and USA because of the COVID-19. They said that the number of new cases should be enough to make federal government realize that its policies are detrimental to Pakistan. Doctors who have put their lives on stake have warned us of the entire situation we may face if the lockdown is not continued in the country. So far, three doctors and two nurses have lost their lives fighting COVID-19. It is unfortunate that the government has failed to announce any relief package for the families of these martyrs.
Palwasha Khan asked the prime minister that how much the rich ministers and advisors had donated to the COVID-19 fund. She said that the travelling and dining allowances of these federal ministers and advisors should immediately be halted. Senator Rubina Khalid said that if the traders in Karachi are incited by the federal government and PTI local leaders then this incitement will reach everywhere in Pakistan. She said that the situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is very alarming but even then the government is planning on opening borders with Afghanistan which will further deteriorate the situation.
Meanwhile, PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has expressed serious reservations on the continuation of payment of Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) funds under the name of Ehsas programme through only two favoured private sector banks, which is discriminatory and faulty method of federal government. By this method the number of Corona cases multiplied and increasing in the country. It was stated by him in a statement issued here on Thursday. He said federal government is playing role to facilitating the spread of corona virus through allowing unchecked entries of passengers at airports and the mess up at the Taftan border.
