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SHIKARPUR: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has asserted that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led Sindh government was lying about the procurement and delivery of vaccines because “they don’t have a single vaccine dose”.

“PPP should be ashamed for politicising an issue pertaining to people’s health,” he said while addressing a PTI workers’ convention in Shikarpur on development projects in the area.

The Planning Minister alleged that the PPP’s Sindh government was politicising the coronavirus vaccine deployment. “We are providing all the vaccine doses for the inoculation campaign and the Sindh government would be standing in lines for the vaccine,” he added.

“Tell Sindh government not to worry, we will give them the vaccines because the people of Sindh are also precious to us,” he said, adding that he will request Prime Minister Imran Khan to “take responsibility” for the people of Sindh.

“If the one who enjoys all powers doesn’t work here in Karachi then someone has to do it,” said Umar.

Briefing the participants of the meeting upon the government’s steps to bring down inflation in the country, he said that the prices of essential commodities are coming down.

Umar said in just two months after the onset of the pandemic, Rs200 billion were distributed among the people of Pakistan, out of which Rs65 billion were spent on the people of Sindh.

Commenting on the broadsheet investigation, Asad Umar said that a former judge of the Supreme Court has been appointed as head of the committee and added that the decision was taken by the federal government.