ISLAMABAD, Oct 19 (TNS): As the world acknowledged Pakistan\u2019s handling of coronavirus pandemic, President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday asked the nation to keep up its \u2018potential of greatness\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dear Pakistanis, you cared for the poor, continued to pray to Allah and here you are where the world praises you,\u201d he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n
The President said the world was now giving a deserving recognition of work done by Pakistani nation on COVID-19.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you my friends, belong to a rising nation, let nobody distract you from your true potential of greatness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
President Alvi mentioned the statement by a U.S. former United States Treasury Secretary and top economist Larry Summers lauded Pakistan\u2019s handling of coronavirus pandemic, saying that the U.S.would have saved trillions had it followed a similar plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica\u2019s failure on Covid-19 is almost unimaginable,\u201d Summers said. \u201cHeck, if the US had handled the pandemic as well as Pakistan, we would have saved in neighbourhood of $10 trillion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Summers was referring to the policy of \u201csmart lockdown\u201d adopted by Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s government policy that helped contain the spread of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n
President Alvi also referred to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who also praised Pakistan, saying country managed to fight the pandemic while allowing its economy to pick up as the country stabilized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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