PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that the federal PTI government's "Islamabad-centric approach" during the coronavirus crisis is undermining the provinces' efforts to fight the pandemic.

Speaking in a joint interview with a few Sindhi TV channels, he said the federal government should limit itself to Islamabad if its policy during the crisis was that Sindh should deal with its own problems and Balochistan should take care of itself.

"So far, the provinces are meeting 90 per cent of the costs of the coronavirus crisis with their own resources, but the provinces alone cannot cope with this global pandemic. Due to non-cooperation of the federation, the provinces are facing great difficulties in fighting this deadly pandemic," he was quoted as saying in a statement.