“Businesses are never more important than the lives and health of people.”This was stated by Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani while speaking to a private television channel on Thursday.
The minister was addressing the reservations of traders who want market operations to resume.Ghani said markets will be reopened once the Sindh government gets the green light from the federal government, which will take three to four more days. For this decision, Ghani cited Sindh’s decision of imposing a province-wide lockdown on its own. He was of the view that the province might be autonomous enough to take various decisions, but once it does, certain entities don’t like it.
Hence, as Ghani put it, the chief minister has decided to get the Centre and Prime Minister Imran Khan’s approval before making any move related to prevention of the coronavirus. Since the lockdown was imposed on March 23, different trade bodies have called on Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and several of his ministers to reopen markets.If they want to open markets on alternative days, we can manage that too, the traders say.
