Pakistani diaspora denounces UK medias blame game on Covid: 19.

ISLAMABAD -- The British Pakistani diaspora has strongly denounced the media campaign giving a false impression that the travel of people from Pakistan has had a significant contribuAtory effect on the high COVID: 19 death toll in the United Kingdom.

Professionals from the top UK universities and research instiAtutes in a statement rejected the recent misleading article pubAlished on June 26 in the Daily Telegraph and later picked up by The Sun and The Daily Mail enAtitled Exclusive: Half of UKs imAported Covid: 19 infections are from Pakistan.

Chairman UPSIGN and ProfesAsor at University College London Jawwad A. Darr Deputy Chair UPSIGN and Professor at LanAcaster university Prof Ihtesham Rehman Prof Tariq Butt from University of Swansea) Senior Lecturer at University of ShefAfield Dr Parveen Ali UPSIGN Co: lead Agriculture and Innovation Manager Rothamsted Research Dr Khalid Mahmood Manager UCL Madiha and Executive DiArector Global Educational MatAters and President PTI Wales Riaz Hassan jointly signed the response.

The professionals mentioned that the news story referred to a purported modest 30 importAed cases detected from Pakistani travelers since June 4th comApared to a staggering 311000 confirmed cases in UK with COVAID: 19 to date.

In fact as of May 7th the UK death toll was a staggering 50 times that of Pakistan they said in the statement.

The Telegraphs fake news headline seeks to counter the real facts that most...