Welfare organisations playing vital role amid virus crisis: Punjab governor

Federal govt’s relief package termed biggest in country’s history

LAHORE: Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has said that at least 300,000 families are being provided ration through the Punjab Development Network and those who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis will not be left alone at any cost.

“We are standing with them. Welfare organisations are playing their active role in this time of trial,” he said while talking to the media here on the occasion of dispatching ration packages by Sarwar Foundation’s Vice Chairperson Begum Perveen Sarwar for 10,000 poor families of Toba Tek Singh on Sunday. MNA Riaz Fatyana, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders and legislators were also present on the occasion.

The governor said the war against coronavirus is not that of an individual or party but of the 220 million Pakistanis. Therefore, the opposition parties should shun the policy of doing politics over the coronavirus crisis rather showing unity and solidarity in this regard, he said. “Together we all have to succeed in fighting out coronavirus pandemic.”

He said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the federal government has given the biggest relief package in the country’s history.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 13^th, 2020.