ADMC head Nasir Shirazi speaks to Minister Afridi on Zaireen issues

ADMC head Nasir Shirazi speaks to Minister Afridi on Zaireen issues by telephone.

On the grievances, Al Majlis Disaster Management Cell head updated Shehryar Afridi who is serving country as minister and as focal person to Prime Minister.

ADMC head Nasir Shirazi

Nasir Shirazi informed him that administration had displayed notices outside houses of Shia Zaireen (pilgrims) in Jhang despite having spent more than a month at quarantine centres.

Minister Afridi immediately issued directives for concerned officials and finally the officials concerned removed the notices.

Those Shia pilgrims had spent two weeks at Taftan quarantine centre first and then spent two weeks at Punjab government’s quarantine centre.

Finally, government shifted them to their houses after repeated negative tests.

Nonetheless, Jhang district administration also affronted them on the pretext of precautionary measures.

State Minister Shehryar Afridi also spoke to administration of Faisalabad, Sheikhupura and Muzaffargarh.

He asked them to address grievances of Zaireen forthwith.

Earlier, MWM delegation had called on minister Shehryar Afridi on Zaireen issues and lodged protest over injustices done to Shia pilgrims.

Nasir Abbas Shirazi led the delegation of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen that comprised of Allama Zaigham Abbas and Irshad Bangash.

Specially, they apprised him of unjustifiable policy regarding Zaireen in the name of quarantine.

The delegates lamented that the government had not allowed many Zaireen to return homes even after their negative test reports.

They complained that the administration was affronting those who had gone homes by displaying unnecessary directives outside their houses.

MWM delegation said that these measures cause immense mental torture to Zaireen.

They said the government had taken Zaireen into custody since their entry into Pakistan via Taftan border crossing.

Since then government had not released them but kept them under quarantine.

First the government kept them for two weeks in Taftan and then at provinces’ quarantine centres for another two weeks.

Even after more than a month long quarantine in two phases and negative test reports, government prolonged their stay.
They condemned the media trial of Zaireen and malicious hatemongering campaign against them.

They turned down it as incorrect, unfair and unjustifiable to blame those Zaireen who have not gone anywhere but remained under government custody since the day one.

MWM delegation warned that they would not tolerate malicious media trial and slur campaign against Zaireen under any pretext.