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Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the coronavirus pandemic had hit the laborer community the most worldwide and stressed a joint global strategy to address the challenges pertaining to this highly vulnerable populace.

Speaking at the virtual Global Summit on ‘COVID-19 and the World of Work’, organized by the International Labour Organization, Imran Khan said that lockdown in countries had left a big population jobless, most of them laborers, daily wagers and self-employed.

“We need a joint strategy on how to soften the impact on laborers world over,” he told the gathering of world leaders and heads of top world organizations, via video-link here from his office.

The five-day ILO Global Summit became the largest-ever online gathering of workers, employers and governments that discussed how to address the economic and social impacts of the pandemic.

Imran Khan said that as businesses were going bankrupt amid coronavirus pandemic, the small and medium industries were to be affected the most in the long run.

“The future is very uncertain and we don’t know how long the economy will take to recover from this lockdown,” he said, adding that laborers remained the most vulnerable section of society in the wake of the pandemic.

Imran Khan mentioned that this “informal and unregistered sector of the economy” was a big challenge for his government along with their families dependent on their income.

He feared slowdown in the agricultural sector leading to a food crisis and mentioned that the construction sector in the country was reopened fairly quickly.

Imran Khan said his government through its social welfare program Ehsaas, approached the registered deserving families and disbursed among them assistance money for livelihood.

Contrarily, India’s strict ‘curfew-like’ lockdown pushed millions below the poverty line, he said.

The Prime Minister said that Pakistan and several other countries greatly relied on the remittances received from its expatriates and stressed a strategy to convince the host countries for a “sympathetic approach” before laying off the workers.

He lauded the initiative of the ILO Global Summit Conference for “Being held at a critical juncture and offering a platform for countries to learn from each others’ experiences of dealing with the pandemic.”

He termed the conference a beginning towards finding solutions and expressed hope that constant exchange of ideas would help mitigate the sufferings of the laborer’s world over.

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