1160 of 1260 people shifted to district quarantine centres

1160 of 1260 people shifted to district quarantine centres from Multan Quarantine Centre of Punjab province.

Unfortunately, government has not allowed them to return homes even after more than a month long stay at the government quarantine centres.

First, the authorities took them into custody at Taftan border town and kept them for two weeks under quarantine policy.

1160 of 1260 people shifted

Then, they shifted them to provincial government’s quarantine centre in Multan.

Despite repeated negative Coronavirus tests, government has not allowed them to return homes.

Finally, they had to lodge protest and staged a sit-in against unjustifiable and illegal confinement in the name of quarantine for more than a month.

Now, the provincial government has shifted them to quarantine centres in their respective districts.

On the other hand, government had not put similar restrictions on Deobandi Tableeghi Jamaat who held its preaching congregation in Raiwind Lahore.

Their members from all over Pakistan and even from abroad gathered on March 10, 2020. Only downpour forced them on March 12 to wrap up the congregation.

Nonetheless, they had not dispersed to return homes but they spread all over Pakistan on preaching mission.

Even after having found them infected with Coronavirus, government continued to deal with them softly.

Deobandi preaching party or Tableeghi Jamaat members stabbed police officer in Layyah and also attacked policemen in Hyderabad.

The Tableeghi Jamaat preaching parties continued to stay at mosques and seminaries but government is hoodwinking people saying they have quarantined them there.

Meanwhile, People of Pakistan have expressed dismay over this biased double standard and two different policy to deal with same pandemic threat.

They say it would not help prevent spread of Coronavirus pandemic but instead it has already spread through Deobandi Tableeghi Jamaat and those others returned from other countries.

Notably, at least 1 million have entered Pakistan from abroad but returned homes without spending even a single day at government’s quarantine centres.

On the other, those Shia Zaireen who returned Pakistan vias Taftan border crossing had to undergo more than one-month quarantine under the government’s supervision.

Victims legitimately call this religious/sectarian discrimination and Pakistan is paying heavy price for exempting others from quarantine.

Resultantly, people who returned from Saudi Arabia, UAE, elsewhere or attended Deobandis Tableeghi Ijtima (congregation) Raiwind, have spread the deadly virus.

Some of them have died of the COVID-19 but government target Zaireen only and that too differently.