Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Altaf Shakoor here Saturday appealed to the government and opposition parties to join hands to counter the onslaught of coronavirus.
He said that in the wake of grim situation faced by the nation and country our parliament should summon joint sessions with a single agenda: How to fight coronavirus. He said without forging a broad-based political consensus our resource-less country cannot effectively deal with this emergency.
He said the government still seems to take political mileage even from this tragedy, as forming a corona relief ‘tiger’ force is a political stunt as term of ‘tiger’ is politically used for workers of ruling party, PTI. He said at this crucial time we do not need some tiger, or lion or Jiyala forces but simply just a ‘national’ force. He said the USA is summoning its retired army men to tackle the emergency and we should follow suit. He said in fact this is time to raise a huge civil national volunteer force, by engaging all able-bodied unemployed Pakistanis to serve their communities and villages. He said two main challenges are glaring us directly in face: to revamp healthcare system and to keep supply chain running.
He said that proposed national civil national volunteers should be given basic first-aid and healthcare training on crash course basis. He said all industries related to agriculture, agro-based products, medicines and food items must run round of clock after ensuring basis safety for their works. He said supply chain of meat, milk, vegetables and grains from farms to market to consumers must run swiftly. He welcomed the decision of the Prime Minister to let run the goods and cargo traffic.
