The extension of the social lockdown, due to the COVID-19 virus, in Pakistan to 14th April has been accepted almost without dissent in the opinion making circles. It has highlighted the intellectual bankruptcy in our intelligentsia.

The propaganda by the world governments has immersed people with COVID-19. Widespread panic has overwhelmed the masses with their minds constantly being occupied with fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The UN chief considered it as a worst crisis since World War II.

In February of this year, the Tajik authorities announced the introduction of the celebration of a new holiday, the Zoroastrian rain festival - “Tirgona”. This was reported by Asia Plus with reference to the chairman of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan Farhod Rakhimi. In turn, this holiday was recently mentioned by President Rahmon saying: “We Tajiks are proud

In Mar 2020, the world witnessed unprecedented efforts to deal with the breakout of Coronavirus (COVID19). In what is known, the virus was first detected during the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a central city in China. Since first reported on 31 Dec 2019 and as of 28 Mar 2020, it has been reported in 202 countries, over 512 thousand confirmed cases with more than 23 thousand deaths.