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Lockdown to badly affect Balochistan due to poverty: PM

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Prime Minister Imran Khan being briefed by officials during his visit to an isolation ward at the Bolan Medical College Hospital on Thursday. — PPI
Prime Minister Imran Khan being briefed by officials during his visit to an isolation ward at the Bolan Medical College Hospital on Thursday. — PPI

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said Balochistan will be the province most affected by the lockdown as its poverty level is more than any other part of the country due to joblessness of daily-wage earners and other poor people, as well as its impact on small business.

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