"I am only concerned about preventing my people from dying of hunger" : PM Imran Khan

[Mamoon]

The CM told us that the Sindh lockdown would continue as was his right under the 18th Amendment, so unless you have comparative figures showing one worked and the other the didn't , you are again talking rubbish again.

So if lockdowns don’t work because people don’t listen and they are useless, why is Imran contemplating imposing a selective lockdown? (Apparently the name smart lockdown is out of fashion now)

The tragedy is that if Imran imposes the selective lockdown you will defend him and if he does not impose it you will still defend him.

PTI supporters like you (the Y clan) do not judge what is right and what is wrong on merit; you judge what is right and what is wrong based on what Imran says.

 

[Bewal Express]

So if lockdowns don’t work because people don’t listen and they are useless, why is Imran contemplating imposing a selective lockdown? (Apparently the name smart lockdown is out of fashion now)

The tragedy is that if Imran imposes the selective lockdown you will defend him and if he does not impose it you will still defend him.

PTI supporters like you (the Y clan) do not judge what is right and what is wrong on merit; you judge what is right and what is wrong based on what Imran says.

I know it's hard for you to understand but a general lockdown does not work because you don't have the resources to keep your economy going and feed 220mn. A smart lockdown can work if you put all your resources into that area and feed the people and hope that a 3 Week period is enough and people listen. Again it comes down people understanding the gravity of the situation and not seeing things as a conspiracy until it hits close to home.

 

[Bewal Express]

So if lockdowns don’t work because people don’t listen and they are useless, why is Imran contemplating imposing a selective lockdown? (Apparently the name smart lockdown is out of fashion now)

The tragedy is that if Imran imposes the selective lockdown you will defend him and if he does not impose it you will still defend him.

PTI supporters like you (the Y clan) do not judge what is right and what is wrong on merit; you judge what is right and what is wrong based on what Imran says.

Btw here in the UK they are also looking at smart lockdowns if the cases spike up. So I know you are desperate for anything but it's not just in PK, they have mooted exactly the same. So unless you are claiming that Johnson and Sunak are also IK supporters, you have fallen flat on your face again.

 

[Mamoon]

I know it's hard for you to understand but a general lockdown does not work because you don't have the resources to keep your economy going and feed 220mn. A smart lockdown can work if you put all your resources into that area and feed the people and hope that a 3 Week period is enough and people listen. Again it comes down people understanding the gravity of the situation and not seeing things as a conspiracy until it hits close to home.

You don’t have to inform me that Pakistan cannot sustain a full lockdown. Unlike you, I live in Pakistan and haven’t opted to settle in the west for a brighter future for my family, so please spare me the lectures.

As I have said from the beginning, the assessment that a complete lockdown is not feasible for Pakistan is the only sensible statement Imran has made during this pandemic.

So if you agree that a smart/selective lockdown works, do you agree that it was completely stupid to lift the smart lockdown restrictions in the last of week of Ramzan?

As someone who doesn’t care enough to live in Pakistan, you perhaps might not know that the last week of Ramzan is the busiest of the year because people go crazy with Eid shopping, and lifting restrictions at that point was utterly ridiculous.

C‘mon - how hard is it to admit that Imran has handled the situation in an extremely incompetent fashion?

I know it is very hard for you but you can at least try.

 

[Mamoon]

Btw here in the UK they are also looking at smart lockdowns if the cases spike up. So I know you are desperate for anything but it's not just in PK, they have mooted exactly the same. So unless you are claiming that Johnson and Sunak are also IK supporters, you have fallen flat on your face again.

So you agree that smart lockdowns work and it was completely idiotic on Imran’s part to lift the smart lockdown restrictions in the last week of Ramzan?

 

[Mamoon]

 

[Bewal Express]

So you agree that smart lockdowns work and it was completely idiotic on Imran’s part to lift the smart lockdown restrictions in the last week of Ramzan?

Targeted smart lockdowns work if you put all your resources into them. But Sindh had a total lockdown, can you give some comparative figures as to what happened there before you go on about whether it failed or not. You seem to avoid questions on the evil PPP

 

[Bewal Express]

You don’t have to inform me that Pakistan cannot sustain a full lockdown. Unlike you, I live in Pakistan and haven’t opted to settle in the west for a brighter future for my family, so please spare me the lectures.

As I have said from the beginning, the assessment that a complete lockdown is not feasible for Pakistan is the only sensible statement Imran has made during this pandemic.

So if you agree that a smart/selective lockdown works, do you agree that it was completely stupid to lift the smart lockdown restrictions in the last of week of Ramzan?

As someone who doesn’t care enough to live in Pakistan, you perhaps might not know that the last week of Ramzan is the busiest of the year because people go crazy with Eid shopping, and lifting restrictions at that point was utterly ridiculous.

C‘mon - how hard is it to admit that Imran has handled the situation in an extremely incompetent fashion?

I know it is very hard for you but you can at least try.

But Sindh had a total lockdown they told us, and if you can give some comparative figures, then it will show up IK.

 

[Abdullah719]

All possible steps to be taken for social protection of down and out people: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday said that being a state’s responsibility, the government would take all possible measures for providing social protection to the down and out people in the country.

The prime minister said this in a meeting with his Special Assistant on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection Dr. Sania Nishtar and Focal Person on Panagah Nasimur Rehman here which reviewed the measures to improve the arrangements at Panagahs (shelter homes) and facilities being extended to the people there under Ehsaas programme.

The prime minister said that besides bringing consistent improvements in the facilities at the shelter homes, the self respect of the beneficiaries must also be honoured.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/4000...r-social-protection-of-down-and-out-people-pm

 

[MenInG]

PM Imran urges sharing of information, balancing virus and economy in ILO summit

Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged the world community to share information on their strategies to deal with the coronavirus, saying that the "constant exchange of ideas will help soften the impact on labourers".

Addressing a virtual summit of the International Labour Organisation, the premier said that the entire world was praying for a vaccine but "uncertainty prevails" in the meantime and countries need to adopt a joint strategy for protecting labourers.

He pointed out that small and medium industries — which employ the most people — are the most vulnerable and a large number of them had filed for bankruptcy.

He added that the world community also needed to have a strategy to convince countries to be more sympathetic to the labourers who were working there and facing problems amid the pandemic.

 

[MenInG]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">LIVE <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/APPNews?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#APPNews</a> : Prime Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImranKhan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ImranKhan</a> addressing ILO Virtual Global Summit on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Covid19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Covid19</a> & the World of Work . <a href="https://twitter.com/PakPMO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PakPMO</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ilo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ilo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ILOSummit?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ILOSummit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/betterfutureofwork?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#betterfutureofwork</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PMIKLeadingTheWorld?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PMIKLeadingTheWorld</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID%E3%83%BC19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVIDー19</a> <a href="https://t.co/GDsMzCmCbn">https://t.co/GDsMzCmCbn</a></p>— APP &#55356;&#56821;&#55356;&#56816; #StayHomeSaveLives &#55356;&#56821;&#55356;&#56816; (@appcsocialmedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/appcsocialmedia/status/1280794012694179840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Kianig89]

Lunacy at its best chicken rs. 400/kg tomato rs. 100/kg sheep being sold at rs. 80,000/- for eid petrol 101 what next people dying of hunger

 

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">More than 12m cases globally, and the coronavirus pandemic has also caused a largely unreported hunger pandemic – if we don’t act now, up to 12,000 people could starve to death every day. <br><br>Please share this film.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZeroCases?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZeroCases</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZeroHunger?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZeroHunger</a><a href="https://t.co/ikOXHdWpqO">pic.twitter.com/ikOXHdWpqO</a> <a href="https://t.co/6lH8IvfnVz">pic.twitter.com/6lH8IvfnVz</a></p>— Oxfam International (@Oxfam) <a href="https://twitter.com/Oxfam/status/1281348528091156481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">More people could die of coronavirus-driven hunger than from the virus itself.<br><br>We've identified 10 countries/regions where the food crisis is most severe and getting worse because of the pandemic &#55357;&#56393;&#55356;&#57342; <a href="https://t.co/yNH5YpBB8d">https://t.co/yNH5YpBB8d</a><br><br>We need <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZeroCases?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZeroCases</a> AND <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZeroHunger?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZeroHunger</a> <a href="https://t.co/2TBFmvfja4">pic.twitter.com/2TBFmvfja4</a></p>— Oxfam International (@Oxfam) <a href="https://twitter.com/Oxfam/status/1281177966526042113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Abdullah719]

Hunger worsening as coronavirus weighs and obesity rises: UN

ROME: Nearly one in nine people in the world are going hungry, with the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating already worsening trends this year, according to a United Nations report published Monday.

Economic slowdowns and climate-related shocks are pushing more people into hunger, while nutritious foods remain too expensive for many, contributing not only to undernourishment, but to growing rates of obesity in adults and children.

"After decades of long decline, the number of people suffering from hunger has been slowly increasing since 2014," said the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World annual report.

Not only did people need enough food, but nutritious food, the study said, citing costly "health and environmental consequences" of sub-par diets.

Nearly 690 million people, or 8.9 percent of people around the globe, are hungry, the UN found.

That number rose by 10 million people in just one year to 2019, and by 60 million in the past five years, found the study, which said eradicating hunger by 2030 - a goal set five years ago - will be impossible if trends continue.

By 2030, over 890 million people could be affected by hunger, or 9.8 percent of the world's population, it estimated.

Five United Nations agencies co-authored the report: the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Last year, the report estimated that over 820 million people were going hungry, but estimates were recalculated following revised data from China for prior years.

When measuring both moderate and severe food insecurity in 2019, the number balloons from 690 million to 2 billion people without "regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food".

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit hard in nations with widespread poverty, could cause another 83 to 132 million people to become undernourished this year, the report said. Global trends had already been worsening before coronavirus, it said.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/40004928/hunger-worsening-as-coronavirus-weighs-and-obesity-rises-un

 

[Abdullah719]

2.3mn Pakistani youth could lose jobs under long term COVID containment: ADB

Over 2.3 million youths in Pakistan could lose their jobs in case of a long term containment scenario implemented to curtail the coronavirus spread, revealed Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its latest report.

As per the report titled Tackling the COVID-19 Youth Employment Crisis in Asia and the Pacific, in the 6-month scenario, job losses for youth may equal 6.1 million in India, followed by Pakistan with 2.3 million.

For most countries, a 6-month period would reach into September because containment started near the beginning of April. Whereas, in other countries many restrictions will be lifted, and businesses will have resumed full operations before September.

Meanwhile, under the 3-month scenario, the largest losses are expected in countries with the largest workforce, but the start date of serious containment measures and the severity of restrictions also have an important impact. In India, the equivalent of 4.1 million youth jobs may be lost, followed by Pakistan with 1.5 million.

The report was if the view that these countries not only have a larger population and workforce, but they also imposed stringent containment measures and did so early, in the latter half of March. As containment measures have continued to be in force after three months in many countries, despite some relaxation, the short containment results are best viewed as a lower bound of job losses.

The report said that between 10 and 15 million youth jobs may be lost across 13 countries in Asia and the Pacific in 2020. These estimates are based on the expected fall in output and consequent decrease in labour demand for the year relative to a non-COVID-19 scenario.

The projected rise in youth unemployment rates varies considerably across the 13 countries, but increases are expected for all countries. In Cambodia, Fiji, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand, youth unemployment rates are expected to reach at least double the 2019 estimates even in a scenario of short COVID-19 containment.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/4001...se-jobs-under-long-term-covid-containment-adb

 

[Abdullah719]

Pandemic could push 115m into extreme poverty in 2020: WB

https://www.samaa.tv/global/2020/10/pandemic-could-push-115m-into-extreme-poverty-in-2020-wb/