The coronavirus outbreak may hurt Imran Khan's political future

[AZ1]

You are right we shouldve announced a nationwide lockdown on day one I mean it worked wonders in India did it not?
http://www.rfi.fr/en/international/...-government-seeks-exit-strategy-post-covid-19

Hes kid mind doesnt know what hw says most of the time. Just put everything on IK and go to sleep thats what he is doing.

 

[fisher1]

You are right we shouldve announced a nationwide lockdown on day one I mean it worked wonders in India did it not?
http://www.rfi.fr/en/international/...-government-seeks-exit-strategy-post-covid-19

Don't be an idiot. That's nonsense.

We should have closed borders and quarantine everyone coming to Pakistan. No need for lockdown in country.

Now you've closed borders and travel and locked down the whole country. Which one was better option?

Hes kid mind doesnt know what hw says most of the time. Just put everything on IK and go to sleep thats what he is doing.

Is IK a commoner like me and someone else is making the decisions? Who should be blamed?

 

[AZ1]

Don't be an idiot. That's nonsense.

We should have closed borders and quarantine everyone coming to Pakistan. No need for lockdown in country.

Now you've closed borders and travel and locked down the whole country. Which one was better option?

What about ppl coming fr abroad just a lady came from saudia in karachi to attend marriage and she was infected and went to parties other 15 also got infected.

Its beyond you to understand anything.

 

[Zibago]

Hes kid mind doesnt know what hw says most of the time. Just put everything on IK and go to sleep thats what he is doing.

He is an old poster with a new profile

 

[fisher1]

What about ppl coming fr abroad just a lady came from saudia in karachi to attend marriage and she was infected and went to parties other 15 also got infected.

Its beyond you to understand anything.

What the hell? Do you not understand what i am saying?

Close the borders = shut down international travel or restrict it.
Quarantine anyone you allow to come to country for 14 days.

That lady from Saudia would've been quarantined too.

 

[Zibago]

Now you've closed borders and travel and locked down the whole country. Which one was better option?

The only difference is the entire country is not under lockdown and factories are to be opened in few days we managed it better than India and it shows be it in the testing department or the step by step restrictions

What about ppl coming fr abroad just a lady came from saudia in karachi to attend marriage and she was infected and went to parties other 15 also got infected.

Its beyond you to understand anything.

Also tableghis are responsible for most of the local spread those who were at taftan were mostly caught and quarantined

 

[AZ1]

What the hell? Do you not understand what i am saying?

Close the borders = shut down international travel or restrict it.
Quarantine anyone you allow to come to country for 14 days.

That lady from Saudia would've been quarantined too.

Haha what a kid mind please give me one example where they close the international border just like that?

That lady came to Pakistan before taftan. So yeah keep saying crap.[/QUOTE]

 

[fisher1]

Haha what a kid mind please give me one example where they close the international border just like that?

That lady came to Pakistan before taftan. So yeah keep saying crap.

[/QUOTE]

Problem is your worship of IK. Anything the fake Messiah doesn't do is considered an impossibility. Here, get your mind blown.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restrictions.html

Ghana Ghana closed it borders to all incoming travelers for two weeks, effective March 22. Travelers who entered the country before March 22 may be subject to quarantine. On April 4, the government of Ghana announced that it would extend the closure for an additional two weeks beginning Sunday, April 5.

Kenya
On March 25, the Kenyan government suspended all international flights in and out of the country.

South Africa

Effective March 26, the South African government began a 21-day lockdown. During this period, the country’s borders are “closed to human activity,”

Argentina

On March 15, Argentina announced it was closing its borders to all incoming foreigners for at least two weeks.

Brazil
On March 30, Brazil closed its borders for a period of 30 days to most foreign nationals arriving by air who don’t fall into one of several categories outlined here.

China China’s foreign ministry announced on March 26 that it was suspending practically all entry to the country by foreigners and was halting almost all international passenger flights as well.

Hong Kong Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese region, requires travelers from all countries to self-quarantine for 14 days. Beginning March 25, nonresidents from any location outside mainland China, Macau and Taiwan have been banned from entering Hong Kong for 14 days.

India Beginning March 18, “all incoming passenger traffic” by air, land and sea has been barred, except for essential goods and services,

Vietnam As of March 22, all foreigners, including people with a Vietnamese visa exemption certificate, are suspended from entering the country. People who arrived in Vietnam before March 22 were subject to mandatory 14-day quarantine at government facilities.

The list is too damn long

 

[aryadravida]

The only difference is the entire country is not under lockdown and factories are to be opened in few days we managed it better than India and it shows be it in the testing department or the step by step restrictions


Also tableghis are responsible for most of the local spread those who were at taftan were mostly caught and quarantined

How is it better than India.. you have 8 percent positive cases out of all the people tested whereas we have only 4 percent .apart from Maharashtra we don't have a single state till now which crossed 1000 number.
After a couple of days the number of positives in India will come down as all tablegis and their acquaintances will have been traced and tested by then.
I will create a thread and compare the figures then.
Pakistan has done poorly when compared to India...as of today India has tested around 1 lakh 20k people whereas pak has done hardly 42k(around 30k in Punjab itself).
You are not testing enough people ...what is happening is many people who are asymptomatic are roaming around infecting people around them...you will know the true picture once you ramp up tests in sindh,KPK and balochistan.

 

[Zibago]

How is it better than India.. you have 8 percent positive cases out of all the people tested whereas we have only 4 percent .apart from Maharashtra we don't have a single state till now which crossed 1000 number.
After a couple of days the number of positives in India will come down as all tablegis and their acquaintances will have been traced and tested by then.
I will create a thread and compare the figures then.
Pakistan has done poorly when compared to India...as of today India has tested around 1 lakh 20k people whereas pak has done hardly 42k(around 30k in Punjab itself).
You are not testing enough people ...what is happening is many people who are asymptomatic are roaming around infecting people around them...you will know the true picture once you ramp up tests in sindh,KPK and balochistan.

India conducted 121 cases per million people we conducted 203 test per million people as for tests in KPK well

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[AZ1]

Problem is your worship of IK. Anything the fake Messiah doesn't do is considered an impossibility. Here, get your mind blown.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restrictions.html

Ghana Ghana closed it borders to all incoming travelers for two weeks, effective March 22. Travelers who entered the country before March 22 may be subject to quarantine. On April 4, the government of Ghana announced that it would extend the closure for an additional two weeks beginning Sunday, April 5.

Kenya
On March 25, the Kenyan government suspended all international flights in and out of the country.

South Africa

Effective March 26, the South African government began a 21-day lockdown. During this period, the country’s borders are “closed to human activity,”

Argentina

On March 15, Argentina announced it was closing its borders to all incoming foreigners for at least two weeks.

Brazil
On March 30, Brazil closed its borders for a period of 30 days to most foreign nationals arriving by air who don’t fall into one of several categories outlined here.

China China’s foreign ministry announced on March 26 that it was suspending practically all entry to the country by foreigners and was halting almost all international passenger flights as well.

Hong Kong Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese region, requires travelers from all countries to self-quarantine for 14 days. Beginning March 25, nonresidents from any location outside mainland China, Macau and Taiwan have been banned from entering Hong Kong for 14 days.

India Beginning March 18, “all incoming passenger traffic” by air, land and sea has been barred, except for essential goods and services,

Vietnam As of March 22, all foreigners, including people with a Vietnamese visa exemption certificate, are suspended from entering the country. People who arrived in Vietnam before March 22 were subject to mandatory 14-day quarantine at government facilities.

The list is too damn long[/QUOTE]

I just took one country from your golden list and this is the number came up Argentina

So did closing helps?

Now keep scratching your head.

 

[Zibago]

India Beginning March 18, “all incoming passenger traffic” by air, land and sea has been barred, except for essential goods and services,

You should really not give example of India given the massive fuckups it did

 

[fisher1]

So did closing helps?

Now keep scratching your head.

Strawman argument. That's a different discussion.

You said " Haha what a kid mind please give me one example where they close the international border just like that?"

I gave plenty.

Anyway, let's agree to disagree. I don't want to argue continously. Have a nice day.

 

[khail007]

The coronavirus outbreak may hurt Imran Khan's political future
By Tom Hussain

08 April 2020

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks to The Associated Press news agency, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 16, 2020 [File: AP/BK Bangash]

Populous Pakistan has not yet made the grim headlines spawned by the global coronavirus pandemic, despite reporting its first infections on February 26.

Sadly, in the weeks to come, it will. The number of infections is projected to spiral into the millions. And as the death toll mounts, the blame for the government's failure to learn from the mass outbreaks in neighbouring China and Iran will fall squarely on the government and Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose reluctance to act decisively may cost him dearly.

Initially, its response to the brewing crisis was lackadaisical. Responding to criticism in his first televised speech on March 17, Khan said his government had been monitoring the pandemic since January, but did not begin emergency consultations until the first cluster of infections was identified on March 12.

Notably, this discovery by the opposition-controlled Sindh provincial government exposed the failure of the federal authorities to properly screen and quarantine thousands of pilgrims returning from Iran.

Had Sindh's Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah not taken the initiative to start testing returnees upon learning of the first infections in the provincial capital Karachi, the metropolis of 18 million souls would have become another Wuhan, and health authorities in other provinces would not have been alerted to the infectiousness of the pilgrims.

However, when Khan addressed the subject, he was absurdly fatalistic. The spread of the coronavirus was inevitable, he said, but there was no need to panic because for the majority, the disease would feel like mild flu. He ruled out a nationwide shutdown to contain the virus, saying Pakistan's poor were dependent on daily incomes and would starve.

This deprived the country of a clear sense of direction. The federal government and provincial authorities - even those ruled by Khan's PTI party - each reacted differently. Sindh moved steadily towards a shutdown, while others enacted piecemeal measures like school closures and shortened shopping hours. There was no nationwide effort to urgently equip hospitals and front-line healthcare providers. There was not even a clear, mass messaging campaign launched by the authorities.

Pakistan's powerful military was left with no option but to make its presence publicly felt. On March 23, Pakistan's national day, chief spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar announced troops would be deployed across the country in response to calls for assistance from the provincial authorities.

This was a clear signal that the establishment was losing patience with Khan's refusal to provide responsible leadership when the country most needed it. At a press conference on March 24, several TV anchors humiliated the prime minister.

Instead of accepting the counsel of the military, which helped usher his government into power in August 2018, Khan responded to criticism with obstinacy.

Addressing a video conference of parliamentary party leaders called by the opposition on March 25, Khan opposed moves by the Sindh government to enforce a province-wide shutdown, thereby stymying any matching measures in the other provinces, where his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and their allies hold power.

The resultant leadership vacuum was exploited by populist clerics, whose refusal to cancel congregational prayers last Friday and other religious gatherings planted viral time bombs which began to detonate across the country, setting Pakistan on the path to a massive outbreak.

Again, Khan took to the airwaves on March 31, amid expectations that he would finally grab the bull by the horns. Instead, the prime minister insisted that Pakistan's youthful demographic would save it from the fate of other infected countries, and questioned the effectiveness of a lockdown.

The military had had enough. Another video conference of federal and provincial leaders was held on April 1 with army chief of staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa attending in combat fatigues, rather than usual dress uniform. In the official video of the event, he silently frowned at the federal cabinet.

Afterwards, Planning Minister Asad Umar, rather than Khan, announced that the varying restrictions on public movement introduced by the federal and provincial authorities in the second half of March would be extended until April 14, and the military announced that Lieutenant General Hamood Khan will be in charge of its command and control apparatus would oversee the state's response to the pandemic.

The ramifications of the all-powerful military's intervention could be dire for Khan's administration, once Pakistan has overcome the pandemic. Tired of the government's poor governance, in particular its mishandling of the economy, the military reportedly reached out to opposition party leaders last autumn. An increasingly public conversation among opposition politicians on how to go about removing Khan has ensued, fuelled by the subsequent release from jail of ailing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on medical grounds.

Since then, the Pakistani news media has been rife with speculation about the longevity of Khan's administration. Until the coronavirus spread from Iran, eminent analysts generally felt that Bajwa was prepared to give Khan time to improve his government's performance.

That view has shifted markedly since the military was forced by Khan's ineptitude to take control of Pakistan's emergency response to the pandemic. Veteran Urdu language columnist Suhail Warraich, one of a handful of analysts renowned for accurately predicting the demise of governments, on Monday wrote that Khan has until June to get his administration's act together and mend fences with the opposition, failing which, violent political change may follow.

That "message" should be viewed as a warning that the military is in no mood to shoulder the blame for Khan's shortcomings. With Pakistan's very future at stake, the trajectory of the pandemic and his political career may well prove inseparable.

Tom Hussain is a journalist and Pakistan affairs analyst based in Islamabad.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/o...an-khan-political-future-200408093849378.html

Not only political lives ... but everyone's life on the planet earth - people feeling the heat of it. 'COVID-19' is blind and unable to distinguish among religions/political affiliations/social status/etc. Everyone to take care of him/herself.

 

[POPEYE-Sailor]

DO work stop conferences and talk
Show some fukng action

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