After the Sindh government’s refusal to include the Prime Minister’s Corona Relief Tiger Force in the provincial administrative system, Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided to place 154,000 members of the Tiger Force in Sindh under his party leader and provincial Governor Imran Ismail.

The prime minister took the decision at a meeting with his Special Assistant on Youth Affairs Usman Dar, who informed him that currently 115,000 volunteers of the Tiger Force — including around 93,000 in Punjab, 19,000 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 1,500 in Balochistan — were involved in relief activities in the three provinces.

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