Zulfi admonishes British news outlets.

Islamabad -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari on Tuesday said that the deadly coronavirus had surfaced in Pakistan after the pandemic hit Britain in start of February.

There was not even a single case of the virus in Pakistan the pandemic hit the UK in start of February while it reached Pakistan by end of the same month' said Bukhari while rejecting British media reports about origins of the virus outbreak in United Kingdom.

In a press release SAPM Zulfi Bukhari addressing the UK-based publications The Telegraph The Sun and Daily Mail said that the news outlets had published baseless and misleading news stories in which they wrongly attributed the spread of coronavirus to Pakistani nationals who travelled from the country to...