Bilawal slams govt's 'failed policies', challenges Imran to a public debate.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday lashed out at the federal government's coronavirus response and challenged Prime Minister Imran Khan to have a debate on his policies either in the House or on any television channel.

Speaking after the prime minister in the National Assembly (NA), the PPP chief said that the prime minister's speech was the speech of a 'puppet and selected, for the selectors'. It was not a speech for the people of Pakistan, he added.

He said that PM Imran had no plan to deal with Covid-19 and only opposed lockdown. He added that 'the lockdown was the time to increase the health capacity of the country, lockdown was the time to equip your hospitals, lockdown was the time to increase ICU beds in the hospitals, it was the time to plan to protect the lives and the health of the people'.

'Sindh is still doing the most tests according to its population and the patients' recovery rate is the highest in Sindh,' Bilawal said and warned that if the situation persists due to the 'failed policies' of the prime minister, no province in the country would be able to take the burden of the number of patients.

'If you want to return the amount to IMF [International Monetary Fund] then do not implement lockdown but it is your responsibility to save people from diseases and save their lives,' he said, lamenting that that prime minister is not ready to listen to any doctor or health expert.

'It is like the time when there was war in Kargil but we kept saying that there is no war and our soldiers were being martyred, and similarly, now the doctors and paramedics are getting infected with the disease and unfortunately succumbing to the disease but our prime minister refuses to accept the situation,' he said. 'No risk or any kind of allowance was announced in the budget for our doctors and paramedics who are fighting this pandemic putting their own lives at risk.'

Bilawal said that the foreign policy of the country is in shambles as everyone knows what has happened to the occupied Kashmir. 'The prime minister's attitude has been one of a coward and puppet. He is the prime minister who had said that the Kashmir problem will be resolved when Narendra Modi wins the elections,' he said.

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