CM Usman Buzdar lauds traders community for helping govt to curb covid-19

LAHORE: Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Sunday lauded the industrialist and trader community for extending maximum cooperation to the government in its endeavour to eradicate coronavirus pandemic across the province, including Multan. He expressed these views here in meeting with Khawaja Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, an eminent industrialist and head of a group of industries.

On this occasion, Rumi apprised the chief minister of collective efforts being made with the government to effectively cope up with coronavirus situation in Multan. Buzdar added the Punjab government valued the cooperation of philanthropists in high esteem as poor people were in dire need of their help.

He urged the philanthropists and affluent people to extend maximum help to the people striving for their bread and butter in the prevailing situation. He mentioned that the Punjab government had undertaken all necessary measures to protect the people’s lives and appealed to the citizens not to get out of their houses without genuine need.

He emphasised that citizens by fully adhering to preventive measures could not only protect themselves but also the others. Coronavirus patients were being provided best treatment and healthcare facilities, he added. The chief minister commended those industrialists paying salaries and arrears to the labourer community in this hour of distress and said their gesture was praiseworthy.

He said, "Those fighting coronavirus on the frontline are highly valuable and important for us and will never be left alone," he vowed. Khawaja Jalal-ud-Din Rumi assured the chief minister of supporting government