PM takes pride in his team for smart lockdown option.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday took pride in his team for being amongst the first to enforce smart lockdowns in the country to control the spread of Covid-19.

Sharing a Bloomberg opinion piece on smart lockdowns being the future of Europe, on Twitter, the premier said he was proud of his team for helping him navigate through the Covid-19 crisis in the country.

He said that if Pakistan continued to follow standard operating procedures (SOPs), the country will successfully tackle the crisis.

The article says Germany, Italy and Portugal are betting on smaller, local shutdowns to prevent a new surge of coronavirus infections. Shortly afterwards, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis Sayed Zulfiqar Bukhari said PM Imran deserved praise for exhibiting excellent leadership.

'The world is realising smart lockdowns are the only way [to deal with coronavirus],' he wrote on Twitter, adding that the US and European countries were also implementing smart lockdowns 'for its sustainable benefits'. Bukhari added that members of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), as well as the stakeholders, also deserved congratulations in this regard.

'Had it been any other government today, can't even imagine disaster it would've been,' the special assistant underscored.

Earlier this month, the prime minister said that Pakistan was a poor...