Need for precaution

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, Pakistan suffers badly. On the one side, our economy is fragile and cannot endure a long lockdown across the country. On the other side, the situation from the deadly disease is going from bad to worse daily. The federal and provincial governments are doing their best to cope with the serious pandemic and stop it from further spreading. But our people are a stumbling block in the way of all these protective measures. They are not implementing the instructions or orders issued by the government to protect them from the impacts of this epidemic. Even Ulema (religious scholars) have fully supported the government's precautionary measures calling upon the general public to confine their movement and gatherings, but they link all these things to a conspiracy theory.

No doubt, public woes caused by the closure of of business and jobs are greater than ever. The poor and penniless class is worried how to earn their dinner and the government must ensure provision of the necessary items to them on emergent basis. But precautionary measures are also mandatory. If health gets deteriorated it can hardly be recovered in the crisis-ridden situation. Given the prevailing desperate situation, it is incumbent on all strata of society to execute the precautionary measures and save themselves from adverse effects of the coronavirus.

Guldar Khan Wazir

Loralai