Need to devise future strategy to deal with negative impacts of Covid-19: Qureshi

(Karachi) Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that in wake of the coronavirus outbreak, it is need of the hour to formulate a future line of action to deal with the negative impacts of the disease.

Addressing a meeting regarding use of modern technology in Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad on Sunday, he said the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge which has almost changed the world.

Qureshi maintained, "Today all meeting across the world are being held virtually through video link." He stated the government is devising strategies to run affairs of the country by involving technology.

He said Pakistan needs to prepare for the challenges after coronavirus pandemic settles. "The world is rapidly heading for a global economic crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic,” the foreign minister said. “Its effects of the epidemic will be greatest for developing countries.”

Regarding border dispute with India, Qureshi said perhaps with necessary introspection, the current Indian government would be less focused on igniting border disputes with every neighbour, behaving like an expansionist nation, and more focused on serving the poor, downtrodden and minorities of India better.

He said it would serve Modi's government and 'neighbourhood first' policy well to realise India's neighbours pose far less of a problem than their own domestic inadequacies, failures and fascism.