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ISLAMABAD, April 15: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah is fully empowered to take decisions about easing or extending the lockdown in the province and is also responsible to save the vulnerable segments from unemployment, hunger and starvation.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting DrFirdousAshiqAwan said this on Wednesday while addressing a joint press conference with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Central Vice President and Parliamentary leader of the PTI in Sindh Assembly HaleemAdil Sheikh here.
She said during the National Coordination Committee (NCC) meeting on Tuesday, decisions were made in consensus. For the sake of national unity, the Prime Minister authorized the provinces to take their own decisions regarding lockdown and opening of low-risk industries to provide employment to daily wage workers, she added.
The special assistant said Prime Minister Imran Khan is fully cognizant of his responsibilities and taking along all the federating units to successfully surmount the challenge.
She said the federal and provincial governments would have to work together to cope with the coronavirus challenge. She said all other provinces accepted the decisions made in the NCC meeting but unfortunately Sindh government spokesman, who is also a provincial minister, made a controversial tweet which is an effort to divide the nation at this critical juncture.
She said time and again the Sindh government was informed during the meetings of NCC that the provinces are free to take decisions in the larger interest of the people of their respective provinces keeping in view ground situation.
She said the rulers should give hope to the people but the in press conference on Wednesday Syed Murad Ali Shah appeared pessimistic which might create fear and panic among the people of Sindh.
She reminded the Sindh chief minister that he has the powers to impose curfew in the province under the Constitution but at the same time he has responsibilities to protect the rights of the people of the province.
She said if the Sindh government fails to provide ration to the poor segments of the society, it would mean that the lockdown is imposed to protect the rights of the upper class and to promote his image of ‘good boy’ in the media. -TLTP
