PM Imran khan Address to Nation | 1st June 2020

[zeroboy]

 

[El Sidd]

Psycho is back !!

 

[BL33D]

Okay. Ignore this comment as I have no locus standi on this issue but it leaves very bad impression the way IK is distinguishing rich and poor. They are both part of your society and it seems his thought process is biased towards some kind of perception. Just make decisions on the merit of it.

 

[Waterboy]

Fact checking Prime Minister Imran Khan's address to the nation:
1. "I was always against the lock down"
His own Government and the National Co-ordination Committee announced the lock down. The DG ISPR held a Press Conference on March 23rd.
2. "The type of lockdown I wanted did not happen in Pakistan because the 18th amendment exists"
PTI is in power in Punjab, KPK and has a coalition government in Balochistan. It is also in power in the center. No Pakistani government in recent memory has enjoyed such majority with a weak opposition and state support.
3. "The kind of lockdown that happened hurt the poor"
Pakistan had the option to impose a strict lockdown for a month to enhance its medical capacities, trace cases and beef up testing but instead we never really had a lockdown, nobody followed SOPs - the Government consistently was anti-lockdown and gave in to the demands of power lobbies and the religious right.
If everybody had agreed to the enforcement of a strict lockdown, we would have reopened by now in a safe way rather than reopening golf clubs and marriage halls as hundreds of people die each week.
Essentially the strategy is to blame all the ill effects of the lockdown onto other political parties - not sure how the people of Punjab, Balochistan and KPK will believe what happened to them is PPP's fault.
4. "We closed big congregations"
The Raiwind Ijtema happened, Taraaweeh was allowed and Eid congregations also took place last week.
5. "I would not have stopped the construction industry"
The reopening of the construction industry has been led by some of the most elite and powerful industrialists in the country. It is not a pro-poor strategy.
6. "Even America.."
The least we try to emulate America at this point, the better. Trump has bundled up the Corona virus response even worse than Pakistan.
7. "Rich countries are also opening up"
Yes because they used the time to ensure they can safely reopen. New Zealand now has 0 cases of the Corona virus. Nepal, South Korea and Vietnam have done a great job too. China has massive precautions in place to safely reopen. We did absolutely nothing.
All the countries that reopened did so after flattening the curve, our curve is steeper than it has ever been.
8. "The virus will spread"
The Government is not stating it over fears of rebuke but they are most definitely going for the herd immunity strategy - you do not even have herd immunity in Wuhan, the place it all started. There is no evidence yet that herd immunity will work.
Essentially the strategy is to let people get infected, have a few lakh of the die and hope the rest develop antibodies to protect everyone against it. In theory, this happens over months.
Essentially if a group is faced with a lion, herd immunity suggests everyone just stand still and let the lion eat enough people till it tires out and dies.
I don't think I have to explain how disproportionately this will effect the poor. They are the ones who will go out and die - they are the ones who need to be protected the most.
9. "The responsibility is of the people"
The Government's inaction, confused messaging and telling people it is just the flu killed people. We see hospitals being attacked daily because the Government makes them think Corona is no big deal.
Putting the responsibility on to the people to choose between death from Corona and starvation is quite spineless of the Government.
10. "We are a poor nation"
The total subsidy given to sugar traders over the past 5 years, including Jehangir Tareen, is Rs 29 Billion, including 3 billion last year.
Last two years the Government has given PIA a bailout of Rs 30 billion.
Just have to look at the budget to see how underbudgeted Education and Heatlh are - they have never been our priority.
11. "We will follow SOPs"
Every Pakistani knows what a joke the SOPs have been.
I am sure the most popular comments here will be asking me if we can be in a lock down forever - obviously not but your party loyalty should not blind you to how the confused messaging on lock down and corona has led to so many deaths. There needs to be some accountability.
You can also reopen the economy and explain to people how serious the threat is, we are in June and the Prime Minister is still insisting only people over 65+ are in danger. Just google how many young people have died.
Unfortunately, not much has changed despite having a record number of cases and deaths each day. The last briefing by the Prime Minister was on May 7th - we do not even get an explanation on why the leader of the nation was missing for the last month.
Imran Khan's spokesperson only said the pictures we saw of Imran Khan in Nathia Gali were fake and then said he cannot confirm or deny whether Imran Khan was in Nathia Gali or not.
Nobody can deny the impact Covid19 has had on the economy but the Government has to be blamed for their inaction. If the messaging on lockdown was not always this confusing, if for once all of us had come together to fight this disease, we would have been managed to overcome the worst.
Watching the numbers rise daily and then watching the Prime Minister say the same thing he said a month ago shows either he is not looking at the data or listening to certain power lobbies rather than the experts. The previous post on this page shows you how his own Health Department in Punjab indicates ther are 6,70,800 affectees just in Lahore.
Everybody I know knows one person who is either sick or has a loved one die from Corona virus. Like I expanded in the the Shahadat narrative post - instead of actually talking about how terrible decisions by the Government killed these people, we are back to talking about how doctors are in a Jihad and they are all Shaheed.

Schrodinger's accountability:
1. Everything wrong with Pakistan over the last two decades is the fault of Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto as they were Prime Ministers.
2. The awaam is at fault for everything wrong during Imran Khan's tenure as Prime Minister.

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Shehzad Ghias Shaikh

 

[Baghial]

corona ishrafia nain banaya, IMRAN KHAN

corona sub seh zaida masjid main attack karta hy. imran khan

main din key lockdown ke haq main nien tha, lockdown sirf raat ko hona chayi tha, imran khan.

 

[El Sidd]

Okay. Ignore this comment as I have no locus standi on this issue but it leaves very bad impression the way IK is distinguishing rich and poor. They are both part of your society and it seems his thought process is biased towards some kind of perception. Just make decisions on the merit of it.

take a hike

 

[Baghial]

Fact checking Prime Minister Imran Khan's address to the nation:
1. "I was always against the lock down"
His own Government and the National Co-ordination Committee announced the lock down. The DG ISPR held a Press Conference on March 23rd.
2. "The type of lockdown I wanted did not happen in Pakistan because the 18th amendment exists"
PTI is in power in Punjab, KPK and has a coalition government in Balochistan. It is also in power in the center. No Pakistani government in recent memory has enjoyed such majority with a weak opposition and state support.
3. "The kind of lockdown that happened hurt the poor"
Pakistan had the option to impose a strict lockdown for a month to enhance its medical capacities, trace cases and beef up testing but instead we never really had a lockdown, nobody followed SOPs - the Government consistently was anti-lockdown and gave in to the demands of power lobbies and the religious right.
If everybody had agreed to the enforcement of a strict lockdown, we would have reopened by now in a safe way rather than reopening golf clubs and marriage halls as hundreds of people die each week.
Essentially the strategy is to blame all the ill effects of the lockdown onto other political parties - not sure how the people of Punjab, Balochistan and KPK will believe what happened to them is PPP's fault.
4. "We closed big congregations"
The Raiwind Ijtema happened, Taraaweeh was allowed and Eid congregations also took place last week.
5. "I would not have stopped the construction industry"
The reopening of the construction industry has been led by some of the most elite and powerful industrialists in the country. It is not a pro-poor strategy.
6. "Even America.."
The least we try to emulate America at this point, the better. Trump has bundled up the Corona virus response even worse than Pakistan.
7. "Rich countries are also opening up"
Yes because they used the time to ensure they can safely reopen. New Zealand now has 0 cases of the Corona virus. Nepal, South Korea and Vietnam have done a great job too. China has massive precautions in place to safely reopen. We did absolutely nothing.
All the countries that reopened did so after flattening the curve, our curve is steeper than it has ever been.
8. "The virus will spread"
The Government is not stating it over fears of rebuke but they are most definitely going for the herd immunity strategy - you do not even have herd immunity in Wuhan, the place it all started. There is no evidence yet that herd immunity will work.
Essentially the strategy is to let people get infected, have a few lakh of the die and hope the rest develop antibodies to protect everyone against it. In theory, this happens over months.
Essentially if a group is faced with a lion, herd immunity suggests everyone just stand still and let the lion eat enough people till it tires out and dies.
I don't think I have to explain how disproportionately this will effect the poor. They are the ones who will go out and die - they are the ones who need to be protected the most.
9. "The responsibility is of the people"
The Government's inaction, confused messaging and telling people it is just the flu killed people. We see hospitals being attacked daily because the Government makes them think Corona is no big deal.
Putting the responsibility on to the people to choose between death from Corona and starvation is quite spineless of the Government.
10. "We are a poor nation"
The total subsidy given to sugar traders over the past 5 years, including Jehangir Tareen, is Rs 29 Billion, including 3 billion last year.
Last two years the Government has given PIA a bailout of Rs 30 billion.
Just have to look at the budget to see how underbudgeted Education and Heatlh are - they have never been our priority.
11. "We will follow SOPs"
Every Pakistani knows what a joke the SOPs have been.
I am sure the most popular comments here will be asking me if we can be in a lock down forever - obviously not but your party loyalty should not blind you to how the confused messaging on lock down and corona has led to so many deaths. There needs to be some accountability.
You can also reopen the economy and explain to people how serious the threat is, we are in June and the Prime Minister is still insisting only people over 65+ are in danger. Just google how many young people have died.
Unfortunately, not much has changed despite having a record number of cases and deaths each day. The last briefing by the Prime Minister was on May 7th - we do not even get an explanation on why the leader of the nation was missing for the last month.
Imran Khan's spokesperson only said the pictures we saw of Imran Khan in Nathia Gali were fake and then said he cannot confirm or deny whether Imran Khan was in Nathia Gali or not.
Nobody can deny the impact Covid19 has had on the economy but the Government has to be blamed for their inaction. If the messaging on lockdown was not always this confusing, if for once all of us had come together to fight this disease, we would have been managed to overcome the worst.
Watching the numbers rise daily and then watching the Prime Minister say the same thing he said a month ago shows either he is not looking at the data or listening to certain power lobbies rather than the experts. The previous post on this page shows you how his own Health Department in Punjab indicates ther are 6,70,800 affectees just in Lahore.
Everybody I know knows one person who is either sick or has a loved one die from Corona virus. Like I expanded in the the Shahadat narrative post - instead of actually talking about how terrible decisions by the Government killed these people, we are back to talking about how doctors are in a Jihad and they are all Shaheed.

Schrodinger's accountability:
1. Everything wrong with Pakistan over the last two decades is the fault of Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto as they were Prime Ministers.
2. The awaam is at fault for everything wrong during Imran Khan's tenure as Prime Minister.

Copied from facebook:
Shehzad Ghias Shaikh

awaam corna keh saath jeena seekhy, hum kuch nien kar sakty, imran khan.

 

[El Sidd]

awaam corna keh saath jeena seekhy, hum kuch nien kar sakty, imran khan.

there is someone in parallel virus world.

Corona PM is saying to COVID19, Pakistaniyo so ghabrana nahi hai. ye sab mafia ke log hain

 

[Baghial]

there is someone in parallel virus world.

Corona PM is saying to COVID19, Pakistaniyo so ghabrana nahi hai. ye sab mafia ke log hain

Anonymous is Back is pakistan?
maybe everyone will get to see the inside of president/pm house
which was supposed to turn in 2 a university soon!
already got my
Guy Fawkes mask
ready for the occasion

 

[Chanakyaa]

Sir, Please dont disrespect the PM. Atleast his post.

Psycho is back !!

 

[El Sidd]

Anonymous is Back is pakistan?
maybe everyone will get to see the inside of president/pm house
which was supposed to turn in 2 a university soon!
already got my
Guy Fawkes mask
ready for the occasion

With virtual university opening. You can always apply for a crash course in superscience subject of Shero-logy.

 

[Baghial]

Supporters of opposition parties of Pakistan are the most ghatya people of the world

so 150 millions are ghatya.in pakistan . they r in majority

democrazy counts heads, not whats in it!

 

[El Sidd]

Sir, Please dont disrespect the PM. Atleast his post.

he gets paid for this buddy.

like i told the other Indian in the thread.

take a hike

 

[Baghial]

With virtual university opening. You can always apply for a crash course in superscience subject of Shero-logy.

it only offer courses in moon sighting , 2 times a year,

 

[El Sidd]

so 150 millions are ghatya.in pakistan . they r in majority

democrazy counts heads, not whats in it!

just above 50 percent turnout in 2018 elections if you need reminder