Typical Pakistani government... putting blame on others for your own failure.
Can anyone answer these questions:
1 - Were all the arrival stations (airports, seaports, land border crossings) identified and marked?
2 - Did the government, after marking all the arrival stations, build quarantine facilities near them?
3 - Did the government depute medical staff and ambulances at those quarantine centers?
4 - Has the government tried to increase capacity of the existing hospitals and procured additional CCU/ ICU equipment in the last two months?
5 - Has the government notified any hotels and guest/ rest houses that they should be ready for taking quarantined citizens?
6 - Did government start any awareness campaign on electronic and print media when Wuhan was locked down and the warning was issued by WHO to declare it a pandemic?
For God sake, people stranded in Iran are our citizens.. they, by themselves, gathered at Taftan border (no one pushed them there after arresting from their hotel rooms). It is a border where our government didn't do a single thing in the past two months. We have the responsibility to take back our citizens whenever they reach a border crossing and the other country is not ready to keep them. LET'S STOP MAKING OURSELVES A JOKE AROUND THE WORLD.
The government of Pakistan didn't make any facility on our side of the border, and we were expecting Iran to keep them on their side of the border (when hundreds gathered there). Are we so naive that we expect that on Irani side of Taftan border, they had a nice place to keep hundreds of people for extended period of time so that Pakistani government takes another month to build something for them?
This is an extremely useless government.. Imran Khan should now come out of this mentality of saving money for later. Just because he wants to punish media, he didn't run an awareness campaign because media would have earned some money.
Imran Khan should stop embarrassing us now.
I have so many problems with Iran, but in this particular case, the sole responsibility lies with Pakistani government.. not Iran.. which is itself struggling to treat its own citizens.