Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing &Town Planning, Religious Affairs, Forest and Wildlife Nasir Hussain Shah on Friday thanked the people all over the province, especially the people of Karachi, saying that the way people followed the government’s announced lock down on Friday and stayed at their homes even for prayers was exemplary.
The minister for Information said that the Sindh government needed the same kind of cooperation from its people to get rid of a pandemic like the Coronavirus. “The more people cooperate with the government regarding the lock down, the sooner we will get rid of this pandemic”, he said. Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said that banning prayer gatherings, whether Friday prayers or other prayers was a tough decision for the Sindh government, but the government had no other choice. He also thanked the clerics of all the sects saying that the way all the religious leaders cooperated with the government and endorsed the ban on congregrational prayers in mosques was also exemplary. This would not had been possible without the cooperation of the religious scholars, he said. He said that before taking such this tough decision clerics of all the sects were taken in confidence, and according to their suggestion the calls for prayers were given in all the mosques, and the people of the mosque administration also prayed with the congregation.
