QUETTA: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Infor­mation and Parliamentary Secretary Bushra Rind has said that the opposition parties are trying to push the innocent people towards the second wave of Covid-19 by holding rallies but the government would not allow them to play with the lives of the masses.

Speaking at a press conference along with Balochistan Awami Party leader Ms Shaina here on Sunday, Ms Rind said that in the first wave of Covid-19 patients had a 70 per cent chance of survival while the second wave was proving to be more dangerous.

The adviser said that the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic could be judged from the fact that in a single day more than 11,000 people had died across the world. She said that before the PDM’s public meeting in Quetta, the death rate from coronavirus was 2.8pc, while now it was 6.9pc. She claimed the opposition was taking revenge from the public who had rejected them in the 2018 elections. She said it was a double standard of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari who had invited guests with negative reports of Covid-19 to his sister’s engagement ceremony but asked people to attend rallies without precautions.

Ms Rind held former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his government responsible for the economic crisis facing Pakistan and said the present government was making all-out efforts to save the country from financial disaster. She said Maryam Nawaz expressed sympathies with missing persons at the PDM meeting in Quetta even though most of them went missing during the days of Nawaz Sharif government.

Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2020