QUETTA: Founder of the ruling Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) Saeed Ahmed Hashmi has urged all political parties, civil society and intelligentsia to find out a solution with consensus to tackle multiple issues facing the country.

Talking to reporters, the senior parliamentarian called for developing national narrative against any Indian misadventure and to meet the challenge of coronavirus and its impact the country is currently facing.

“After recent embarrassment in Ladakh, India may opt for misadventure against Pakistan,” he warned.

Mr Hashmi said first of all political forces, civil society and intelligentsia needed to develop consensus then the military could alone defend the frontiers of the motherland.

He lamented that a comprehensive strategy was missing in tackling and containing the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

He urged the government and the opposition to bury their differences and make all-out efforts to contain the deadly virus that continued to spread fast in the country.

“Unity and consensus offer solution in these testing times,” Mr Hashmi said.

The senior parliamentarian said that locust attacks in various parts of the country posed a serious threat to agriculture and livestock sectors. The locust invasions had already inflicted huge financial losses to growers and farmers and the government must put all departments on high alert to clear standing crops from locusts, he added.

He said the entry of locusts from Iran and Muscat would further deteriorate the situation in Balochistan and other parts of the country.

Published in Dawn, June 10th, 2020