Sindh Information Minister Nasir Hussain Shah has said if Pakistan had imposed a very strict lockdown for about two weeks as Sindh had suggested, instead of giving confused signals to people, it would have been in a better situation to deal with this pandemic today.

He advised federal ministers to focus on serving the people in distress, instead of making baseless allegations against the Sindh government. Shah added that federal government spokespersons' entire focus was on defaming the Sindh government, instead of creating awareness among the people regarding the prevention against coronavirus.

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