Sindh planning package for doctors, says Bilawal.

KARACHI -- Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that doctors fighting bravely the Covid-19 pandemic are national heroes, adding that the Sindh government is planning to give them a special package similar to the one given to brave soldiers fighting against terrorism.

A part statement issued on Tuesday said that the PPP chairman expressed these views while addressing the PeopAles Doctors Forum (PDF) office-bearers at Bilawal House through a video link.

PDF president Dr Karim Khawaja, Punjab president Dr Khayyam Hafeez, Dr Javed Iqbal, Dr Arsalan Dewan, Sindh president Dr Razzaq Sheikh, Dr Yar Ali Jamali, KP president Dr Nisar Ahmad Khan, Dr Dawood Iqbal, Dr Ashiq Hussain Shah, Afzal Abro and others participated in the discussion.

'The non-arrival of the federal government's economic bailout package reduced the effectiveness of the lockdown and further spread the Covid-19 outbreak,' the statement quoted the PPP chairman as saying.

'The federal governments all over the world have given such relief packages, but ours has given nothing except conAAtinuing the Benazir Income Support Programme funding started by the PPP,' he said, adding, 'I have been talking about giving a relief package not onAly to Sindh, but also to all provinces alike, but instead of helping, the federal goAveArnment is placing obstacles in our way'.

Accuses Centre of hindering relief efforts

He said that the federal representative, the Sindh governor, was not even signing the relief package ordinance givAen to the people by the Sindh government as an attempt to create a hindraAnce. The package, he said, included job and salary protection for the people of the province, rebates on utility bills, reliAeAf in school fees and rebates on house rent.

'The Sindh government wants to give relief to the people of the province in all provincial taxes through this ordinanAce,' said Mr Bhutto-Zardari. 'We also want the lockdown to end but before that we have to ensure the safety of people's...