The Sup­reme Court has ignored the plea of Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Khalid Jawed Khan to seek an opinion from a team of epidemiologists for gauging real threat level and amend its last order in which the apex court held that Pakistan was not affected seriously with the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

“This is a medical emergency, therefore, an opinion of medical experts be sought in a similar fashion as the court did in the controversy regarding Zakat distribution,” the AGP argued while emphasising that none of them was qualified enough to grasp the real danger being posed by the outbreak of global magnitude.

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