Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Zafar Mirza has said that he holds "all the judges of the SC in the highest esteem".

In a tweet, Mirza said that he "strongly condemn(ed) the recent social media campaign against the judiciary" and promised to do all he could to "assist the honourable court [and] shall continue to work to serve the people to the best of my ability".

At the same time, Mirza insisted that Pakistan's response to the current health crisis is "amongst the best responses in the world from both disease control and social mitigation perspectives".

"Let's continue to keep it this way," he said.

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