Business activities allowed in Balochistan from tomorrow.

QUETTA -- The Balochistan government has allowed traders to resume business activities from Monday across the province.

Talking to journalists here on Saturday, provincial government's spokesman Liaquat Ali Shahwani said the leaders of several trade organisations had assured the government that they would implement the standard operating procedures (SOPs) while reopening their businesses.

He said that despite a warning from doctors against relaxing the lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus, the government had allowed the traders to resume their business activities as they were badly affected due to closure of their shops for the past one and half months.

'Businessmen can open their shops, malls and markets seven days a week from 3am to 5pm in Quetta and other towns and cities of Balochistan,' he said. Tailor shops, hotels, medical stores and blood banks would remain open round the clock, he added.

Shahwani says decision being taken despite warning from doctors

Mr Shahwani said that the representatives of traders had been warned that a strict action would be taken against those who were found violating the SOPs.

He admitted that the doctors were justified in warning against relaxing the restrictions because people did not follow the SOPs during the lockdown...

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