Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing &Town Planning, Religious Affairs, Forest and Wildlife Syed NasirHussain Shah has said that regardless of whether the federal government was unjustifiably defaming the Sindh government or the media was criticizing baselessly, the Sindh government would adopt all the precautionary measures which it would deem imperative to save people’s lives. He was addressing a press conference on Monday. The minister said that the Sindh government was doing what the whole world was doing in the light of the advice of medical experts. He said that after the April 24 meeting, when it was decided in consultation with all the stakeholders that the lockdown would be extended till May 9, it was the Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar who announced that the lockdown all over the country would remain intact till May 9, but it was strange that now he was constantly trying to give an impression that as if the people of Sindh were facing hardships owing to lockdown. Minister for Education and LabourSaeed Ghani and Minister for Agriculture Ismail Rahoo were also present at the press conference. Nasir Shah said that not only the federal ministers and federal spokespersons but also the cannons of the media were aimed at the Sindh government and the impression was being given that people were suffering owing to lockdown only in Sindh, while the rest of the country was open. The minister said that attempts were being made to discredit the Sindh government on mainstream media and social media by making various false allegations, sometimes regarding distribution of rations and sometimes by misleading the businessmen. He said that the focus of the Sindh government could not be diverted from such clever tactics and the Sindh government would do everything possible to save the lives of its people. He said that now people were also aware of the fact that because the federal government itself was not able to deliver, therefore it wanted the Sindh government to do nothing as well, so that it did not become popular among the people. The minister said that the Sindh government was being defamed under an organized conspiracy. He said that this was the main reason that even the work done by the Sindh government for the welfare of the people was being presented as if it was doing something wrong. Nasir Shah further said that on the one hand only allegations were being made regarding the pandemic of Coronavirus, while on the other hand the federal government had extended no help to do away with the constant attacks of locusts on crops in Sindh. Speaking on the occasion, Ismail Rahoosaid that not only the federal government had been constantly informed about locusts’ attacks but also help has been sought from them in this regard but we had not been helped yet. He said that millions of acres of crops in Sindh were at risk of locusts attacks and in this regard we had asked the federal govt that the Sindh govt was ready to pay for the fuel of the aircrafts to be used for spraying pesticides as well as for the pesticides, but he regretted that so far Sindh government had not been provided with any aircraft.
Sindh left alone to deal with Corona, locusts: Nasir Shah
