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The United Kingdom’s decision to maneuver India from its ‘red’ to ‘amber’ list of Covid travel restrictions while keeping Pakistan on the red list has garnered heavy criticism from Pakistani MPs and ministers.
Pakistanis are fighting for international colour and list once more . Only it’s not the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list this point .
Pakistani Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry Thursday tweeted a web petition on the united kingdom Government and Parliament website calling for the removal of his country from the red list for travel. The petition has received 123,653 signatures till now and has been shared widely on Twitter. UK Parliament considers all petitions that get quite 100,000 signatures for a debate.
“The Government has made it consistently clear it’ll take decisive action, if necessary, to contain the virus and Pakistan has been added to the “Red List” to guard public health,” read a response by the united kingdom government on the web site .
Slamming the united kingdom cabinet for “showing clear political proclivity towards India”, Pakistani Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari also took to Twitter to match daily Covid mortality numbers between India and Pakistan from 26 July to 1 August.
Several Pakistani-origin members of British House of Commons also came out strongly against their government’s “ridiculous” move, with one Labour MP claiming that the list is “seeking to penalise Pakistan in favour of potential economic benefit”.
High Commissioner for Pakistan to the uk Moazzam Ahmad Khan Friday told the media that the difficulty of not removing Pakistan from the red list has been formally haunted with British government.
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