August 4, 2021 KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Tuesday said that if imposing the lockdown is so necessary and the coronavirus rate in Karachi has reached the worrying stage, the federal and provincial governments should declare Karachi and Hydedeabd ‘calamity hit’ immediately and waive all taxes on the residents and traders. He was addressing a press conference at the party’s temporary headquarters after a delegation of various traders’ bodies of the city met him. He said the prime minister say the lockdown is not in the interest of the country, but the Sindh government believes imposition of the lockdown would benefit Pakistan. “If the prime minister announces today, tomorrow the businesses will open in Karachi.”