PML-N challenges official statistics of Covid-19 cases.

ISLAMABAD -- Stating that the coronavirus cases are under-reported in the country, the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has challenged the official figures and data and claimed that the number of Covid-19 patients has crossed the six-digit mark in the country.

Speaking at a news conference with other party leaders on Thursday, PML-N's parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Khawaja Asif pointed out that the health secretary of Balochistan had stated that there were hundreds of thousands of suspected coronavirus cases in the province already. The PML-N leader said a similar situation might hold in other provinces too and the number could go to tens of millions, he warned.

Mr Asif alleged the government was leading the country into 'irreversible disaster through lies, confusion and blunders'.

He said the government had failed completely to handle Covid-19 outbreak and was instead busy looting the people amid a pandemic through its ministers, office holders and cronies.

He alleged that after making billions of rupees in sugar, wheat and medicine, a special assistant of the prime minister was busy selling Roosevelt Hotel in the US, one of the most valuable assets of PIA. He said the nation was being fed lies every day through botched and reduced numbers.

Government accused of leading Pakistan into 'irreversible disaster'

PML-N vice president and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the government could not share its strategy to fight the pandemic because the government does not have any strategy. He said the PTI leaders said the government had an evolving strategy which was another name for a strategy based on kneejerk...