KARACHI – Zubair Tufail President, Zafar Bakhtawari, Secretary General, Dr. Mirza Ikhtiar Baig Secretary Information, other leaders and members of UBG on Executive Committee of FPCCI 2021 have sharply reacted on the Sindh Government decision to imposing weeklong lockdown in Karachi which is a commercial and economic hub of Pakistan. They said lockdown would severely affect poor population of metropolis where hundreds of thousands of families depended on daily wages and small businesses.
They further said that weeklong lockdown will not only cause negative impact on Karachi economic health but would ultimately affect the entire national economy.
They appealed to the Chief Minister of Sindh to withdraw the decision of lockdown otherwise it will severely harm the economic activities. They suggested to impose smart lockdown rather than closing down the entire city so that the people of poor section of the society may not face hardship.
In order to overcome the sever situation of COVID they suggested to increase number of Corona vaccination centers and also increase the paramedical staff to inject Corona virus vaccine to workers at their workplaces and common people at their homes. Due to inadequate arrangement, scores of people gather outside vaccination centers in blatant violation of the SOPs for Corona, they said.
Pakistan’s export will also badly suffer for this lockdown as the export orders will be cancelled by the foreign buyers which is hardly affordable at this moment.
