Joint strategy needed to protect labour class: Imran Urges global sharing of information balancing virus and economy.

Islamabad -- Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for a joint strategy to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and to soften impact of the virus especially on the labourers.

Addressing an online summit orgnaised by the International Labour Organisation on coronavirus the prime minister said the labour class has been the most impacted due to the coronavirus and the lockdowns imposed around the world.

This is what makes this summit so important PM Imran noted.

Speaking about the efforts done by his government to stem the spread of the virus and to make sure the labour force of the country does not go hungry the prime minister said We decided that the government needed to transfer cash to the informal part of the labour. Those who were registered we asked the employers to keep them employed. But the ones who were not we helped them through Ehsaas programme. Never in the countrys history was so much money transferred to so many people in a short time he remarked. This saved us from some of the worst aspects of the crisis. Unlike in India where they imposed a curfew which pushed people into deeper poverty. The prime minister continued No one is sure when the coronavirus will end. We are all praying a vaccine comes out for the virus soon but meanwhile uncertainty prevails. The small and medium enterprises are the most affected by the virus and these employ the most number of labourers which is why we need to come up with the idea to solve their issues he said.

Speaking about the overseas labourers the prime minister said a collective strategy is needed to tell other...