Staff Reporter
Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing & Town Planning, Religious Affairs, Forest and Wildlife Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that lockdown in Sindh was not being completely lifted, only those business activities which were agreed upon between the federal government and all the provinces are being restored under SOPs.
The minister said that it was wrong to give the impression that lock down was being completely lifted in Sindh. “In a situation where the Coronavirus was spreading rapidly in the province, and it was not even known how far it will go, it is impossible for the Sindh government to lift the lockdown completely,” he said.
Nasir Shah said that although the situation demanded that there should be no further relaxation in the lock down, but because the risk of unemployment was increasing in the whole country, and the business community was also worried about their losses, so the federal government and all the provincial governments decided to resume business activities on a limited scale under standard operating procedures.
The minister said that any business person or trader who did not follow the standard operating procedures 100 per cent, he would not be allowed to do business.
“God forbid, if the situation worsens, we will have to make tough decisions again,” he said. Nasir Shah said that the Sindh government has also written a letter to the federal government to help the traders and all the members of the business community instead of giving them interest bearing loans. The provincial Information Minister said that if the federal government helped the traders, it would indirectly provide job security to the daily wagers.
