Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned opposition parties against taking law in their hands during the arrival of the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz at Pakistan’s anti-graft watchdog National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore office on March 26 in a transaction matter.
Khan who is in quarantine for the last six days after testing positive, was talking to the government spokespersons in a meeting held strictly under the coronavirus guidelines.
“We need to follow SOPs as the third wave is more dangerous,” said Khan.
The government would not allow any violation of law on this occasion, he warned.
Maryam Nawaz’s arrival at NAB is going to be a big political show as leaders of the opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement, have announced to accompany her to the NAB office.
Deploying police
The Punjab government has taken tight security measures declaring the 3-sq mile area of the NAB building a high-security red zone and deploying police and paramilitary troops to avert any law & order situation.
Pakistan’s COVID-19 positivity rate surged past 10 per cent on Thursday as the country witnessed the highest number of single-day infections—3,946— since July 2020 when 4,432 cases were recorded in one-day.
According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), in the last twenty-four hours, 38,858 tests were carried out, of which 3,946 tested positive. The nationwide positivity ratio is 10.15 per cent, the NCOC portal further says.
The country’s death number also crossed 14,000 with 63 mortalities in the last twenty-four hours. The toll caused by COVID-19 since outbreak of the virus last year recorded a total 14,028 deaths.
The total number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan has reached 640,988 while the active cases stand at 37,985, the NCOC data further reveals.
According to the NCOC, Sindh with 263,815 cases of COVID-19 is ahead of Punjab where 205,314 cases have been reported so far.
Cases low
However in deaths, Punjab, a province of over 100 million population with 6,099 deaths, is ahead of Sindh where 4,482 people so far have lost their lives to COVID-19. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 2,246, Islamabad 554 and Balochistan 205 deaths have been recorded so far.
The number of cases in KP (81,787) and Balochistan (19,395) are relatively low.
President of the main opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday sought the judicial intervention to get himself vaccinated against COVID-19.
Sharif who appeared before an accountability court of Lahore in a money laundering case informed the judge he would turn 70 this year but still he was denied vaccination.
“I am turning 70 this year and as per the government policy and as a citizen of Pakistan it is my right to get vaccine but unfortunately, my medical tests reports have not been provided to me,” said the former Chief Minister of Punjab.
The court accepting Sharif’s verbal request directed the Chief Secretary of the Punjab to ensure he is vaccinated within two days. The court also directed the Punjab government to provide Shahbaz Sharif with reports of his medical tests.
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