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Coronavirus: Pakistan to get $588m to fight the menace

ISLAMABAD: In a meeting between Deputy Chairman Planning Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan and Directors of World Bank and Asian Development Bank here today the Int’l Fin institutions had pledged to provide Paksitan an amount of  US$ 588 enabling it to combat Coronavirus.

Funds will be used for the establishment of isolation centers across Pakistan. Besides, additional equipment will also be provided to fight this pandemic.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.