In what you will say ironic, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan extended his helping hand to India in tackling the ongoing migrants crisis. Imran Khan on Thursday, tweeted and said, "Acc to this report, 34% of households across India will not be able to survive for more than a week without add assistance. I am ready to offer help & share our successful cash transfer prog, lauded internationally for its reach & transparency, with India."
Khan gave this statement after tweeting a report which claimed that 84 per cent of Indian households were reporting decreases in income since the lockdown.
Acc to this report, 34% of households across India will not be able to survive for more than a week without add assistance. I am ready to offer help & share our successful cash transfer prog, lauded internationally for its reach & transparency, with India.https://t.co/CcvUf6wERM
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) June 11, 2020
The research carried out by experts at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago and the Mumbai-based Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) says that 84 per cent of households reported a fall in income due to the lockdown.
Pakistan who is trying to help India to counter migrants crisis is itself suffering from the same problem. As per a Pakistani news portal, Up to 18.53 million Pakistanis may lose their jobs in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.
In March, the Pakistan Prime Minister had said that his country could not implement a large-scale urban lockdown like other western nations to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
He had asserted that such a move would threaten to cripple the economy of the cash-strapped country."If we shut down the cities -- people are already facing difficult circumstances -- we will save them from corona at one end, but they will die from hunger on other side,” he had said.