Shah Mehmood Qureshi phoned his Malaysian-Singaporean counterparts

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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi phoned his Malaysian and Singaporean counterparts on Wednesday to emphasise the need for closer cooperation for dealing with the challenges emerging from the outbreak of the disease.

In his conversation with Singapore Foreign Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Mr Qureshi expressed Pakistan’s interest in a contact tracing application, ‘Trace Together’, to break the chain of transmission.

The application developed by Singapore government can identify people who have been within two metres of a coronavirus patient for at least 30 minutes, using wireless Bluetooth technology.

Mr Qureshi highlighted PM Khan’s call for debt relief and restructuring to help developing countries create the fiscal space needed to combat the disease, save precious human lives and shore up their economies.

In his conversation with Malaysian Foreign Minister Hishamuddin Hussein, Mr Qureshi briefed him about Prime Minister Imran Khan’s proposal for debt relief and restructuring to enable developing countries to save human lives and support their economies.

Talking about the situation in occupied Kashmir, the foreign minister said the BJP government had amended domicile rules for the region in a bid to change its demography.

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