Pandemic age and cooperation

Author: By Muhammad Mehdi

The outbreak of the corona virus has given rise to a renewed sense of the importance of social relationships in the world. The term social distancing has become an issue for the public to want to save their lives and lockdown distance.

It is also designing the bilateral relations of world community. It is not possible to form any other opinion on the fact that Pakistan and China are two countries with very deep brotherly relations. When the Corona virus outbreak began to take root in the Chinese province of Wuhan and the world was forced to turn its attention to the horror of corona virus, it was not until now that the virus was affecting the whole world. The question that remains is where the exact originate of the Corona virus came from, because even before China happened, abnormal medical cases began to emerge in the world and different places reported unusual medical cases. However, only scientists could give the real answer and point out the exact originate place of the corona virus. But when the outbreak in China came to its peak, goodwill for its Chinese brothers in Pakistan reached its peak, and it was only at the heart of Pakistanis’ talk that and they were praying for China to come back from the epidemic. At the same time it came to the notice that there were a considerable number of Pakistani students and the issue of whether or not to stay there was a problem. China was providing all possible assistance to Pakistani students and Pakistan stood side by side. The Indian Embassy contacted them to take the Pakistani students from there, saying that we help you and get you out of here. But Pakistani students have denied that we do not want to go from here. As the days went by and the matter steps forwarded, Pakistan decided to express solidarity with the Chinese brothers. Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition in Pakistan Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif also expressed solidarity with the Chinese and sent a message that Pakistan is standing side by side with China.

All this was going on. Now that the Pakistani nation was praying for China, the Corona virus outbreak began to engulf the whole world. Pakistan could not even be safe when these conditions started to unfold. At that time, Pakistan needed urgent international assistance to cope with the outbreak. On this occasion, our brother country, The China and its businessmen, including citizens, began to help Pakistan.

It is China, even though China itself was suffering from this pestilence, yet the Chinese decided to go ahead and hold Pakistan’s hand. Teams of Chinese healthcare professionals arrive in Pakistan and start providing medical aid to the Pakistani people. Chinese herbal medicine is known all over the world, which is why on March 16 Chinese arranged that fifteen hundred boxes of Chinese herbal capsules were sent to Karachi. The first effects of the outbreak were seen in Karachi in Pakistan, so with the help of these capsules, the public was immediately treated. There was a definite benefit in providing aid. The matter was feeling worse and worse in Sindh province even though the Sindh government was also doing its best and its resources were doing well. Therefore, on March 25, more than half million masks from China, including N-95 Masks, were given along with fifty thousand corona virus test kits. All this medical equipment arrived in Sindh on a cargo plane from Jack Ma’s foundation and Alibaba foundation which was received by Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah.

At the same time, China had also completed preparations to help Pakistan at the government level. On March, Chinese ambassador handed over fifteen thousand safety kits and seven thousand meters of cloth which corona virus safety kits for healthcare professionals. Thus it became possible for the Wah ordinance factory to manufacture corona safety masks daily.

Xinjiang is a neighboring province of Pakistan. It came to the fore at a difficult time and gave fifty thousand masks to Sindh and Islamabad. On March 26, China’s leading businessmen and representatives of the companies visited the Pakistani Embassy Beijing and they donated masks, masks production machine, rapid test kit for COVID-19 and other equipment. All these items were worth tens of millions of Yuan. During that time, its effects began to appear in Gilgit-Baltistan as well. Gilgit-Baltistan is a poor area but its Chief Minister Hazeer-ur-Rehman is working so efficiently so the Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Hafiz-ur-Rehman spoke to Governor Xinjiang and from there immediately twenty four hundred test kits and 5 respirators were provided while 200000 ordinary masks as well as N-95 masks were provided.

On April 9, the Sichuan province’s business community moved forward. It is well-known that the one of the province university has a Pakistan study center in Sichuan. However, the Sichuan liaison office of the China Business Council of China made a large shipment of medical supplies to the acting Consul General of Pakistan. Acting Consul General of Pakistan said on the occasion, “We can see real friends coming forward in difficult times.

It is reported that IMF, USA and UK announced their assistance for Pakistan in this critical times. And It has been recently reported that Pakistan wants relief from China about 3 billion $. The requirement is that this voice should go to the Pakistan jointly. All political parties should be taken on board. Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif can play the role in this regard. It is happy thing that China also wants to help Pakistan in this regard. It is a fact that bad times will be passed, but Pakistan has expressed its solidarity with its brother China and China is helping the Pakistan. It will always remain in the hearts of the people of both countries as a happy memory.

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