{"id":7553,"date":"2020-12-09T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2020-12-09T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:22:45","slug":"opposition-should-not-play-with-peoples-lives-in-name-of-democracy-asad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/12\/09\/opposition-should-not-play-with-peoples-lives-in-name-of-democracy-asad\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition should not play with people\u2019s lives in name of democracy: Asad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>Islamabad: Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Asad Umar has said that opposition should not play with people\u2019s lives in the name of democracy.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While addressing media post chairing a meeting of National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), Asad Umar said that opposition parties continue to be irresponsible despite severe second wave of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe will hold a meeting of National Coordination Committee (NCC) tomorrow chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan to review situation of coronavirus in the country. The whole world praised Pakistan\u2019s policy over Covid-19 during the first phase. We have to formulate a strategy considering the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The planning minister further stated that the percentage of corona cases increased tremendously in the past two months in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe country is reporting an average of 60 deaths on daily basis. Several health workers have contracted this virus while treating patients. People are unfortunately ignoring coronavirus Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) which has resulted in surge in infections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asad Umar further stated that public gatherings contribute to the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCoronavirus will spread if ten, twenty thousand people are gathered at one place. Our political leaders are not telling people to follow SOPs. Democracy does not mean that political leadership is allowed to play with the health of people. Democracy is for the development and prosperity of people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pakistan has reported 60 coronavirus deaths and 2,963 new positive cases in one day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to National Command and Control Center (NCOC), around 2,963 cases of coronavirus were reported while 60 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 8,547.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total number of confirmed cases reached to 426,412.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Asad Umar has said that opposition should not play with people\u2019s lives in the name of democracy. While addressing media post chairing a meeting of National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), Asad Umar said that opposition parties continue to be irresponsible despite severe second wave of coronavirus. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7555,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/7555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}