Pakistan
‘Worst SOPs violations in last one year have come from politicians’; Asad expresses grave concern over Covid situation
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Asad Umar has said that the worst violations of coronavirus Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in the last one year have come from politicians.
Taking to twitter, minister who also heads the National Command and Operations Center (NCOC) said that only two weeks earlier, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was threatening to hold Prime Minister Imran Khan and his ministers accountable if coronavirus spreads further in Karachi and now opposition led alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has announced holding a rally this month in the metropolitan city.
He further said that he had recommended that Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections should be delayed for a couple of months and a special vaccination campaign should be run before the polls but a consensus was not reached.
“Since the elections the positivity of AJK is running between 25% and 30%. Elections have acted as a super spreader event,” he added.
Yesterday, Pakistan Democratic Movement announced a countrywide protest against inflation and rigging.
Head of PDM, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that a meeting of the PDM steering committee would be held on August 21 in Islamabad, followed by another meeting of the alliance in Karachi on August 28.
“PDM will stage a grand rally in Karachi on August 29,” he said.