PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has said the government is striving to address the people’s problems caused by coronavirus pandemic.

He was talking to a delegation of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council, who called on him at the Chief Minister’s House here on Friday.

Led by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council vice-chairman Shahid Raza Malak, the visitors discussed with him the lawyers’ issues caused by coronavirus pandemic.

The chief minister said the government was taking every possible step to stem the spread of coronavirus outbreak to protect the people’s life.

“On one hand, we have to control coronavirus and on the other, we have to save the vulnerable segment of society from hunger and poverty,” he said.

Mr Mahmood said under the current circumstances, his government was focussing its attention on the strengthening of healthcare system to provide the best possible facilities to the coronavirus patients and at the same time, efforts were being made to provide livelihood opportunities to the people.

He said despite all odds, the government didn’t make any compromise on the projects of people’s welfare in the budget.

“We neither imposed any new tax nor did we increase the existing ones in the budget just to benefit the general public,” he said.

Mr Mahmood handed over a cheque of Rs50 million to the delegation as grant for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council.

Published in Dawn, June 27th, 2020