Pakistan, in a struggling and crippling state, has managed to import COVID vaccines from its close intimate China to provide free inoculation jabs to its frontline health paramedics. Meanwhile, India has launched one of the world's biggest free pandemic vaccination drives for its health personnel and also made free shipments of COVID vaccines to major global nations including its Asian subcontinental neighbours except Pakistan. While political experts term it as India's key diplomacy weapon against China to become the next superpower, India has on the otherhand has taken this as its commitment and contribution to the universal health coverage and brotherhood.
It's obviously no wonder that Pakistan has not received free COVID vaccines from India or India has not supplied. The root cause being the increasing political tensions and relations between the two Asian nuclear superpowers. Neither Government of Pakistan has placed a request for indent nor India has shown its voluntary grit to its counterpart.
Competing with India by following the vaccine diplomacy, China has promised to provide 5 lakhs of its own made Sinopharm vaccines as free charity jabs for inoculation to heath service staffs. Will it be sufficient for controlling COVID outbreak in Pakistan? or Will Pakistan ever receive free COVID vaccines from India?
The question remains a suspense but Pakistan Government is very hopeful on the humanitarian ground that India might consider supplying free COVID doses to its soil very soon. This is because the pharmaceutical business between the two nations has been pretty consistent since the last few years despite their burning sour political tactics. Vaccines used in Pakistani regular health sector activities like child and pregnant women immunization are mainly Made in India and imported from India. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of India has confirmed that no indent requests has been received from Pakistan for COVID vaccine supplies.
India, on the otherhand, is marching ahead strongly in its vaccine diplomacy policy(you can say that). To garner its global diplomatic relations to a high scale, India is continuing to support the all needy countries with free COVID vaccines as it's patronage gifts and making commercial supplies on a larger scale to specific countries. Pakistan seems to be standing at the brink of healing its internal relations with India but without a selfless approach, the hope slides down to zero. Hence, it is quite optimistically correct to say that India might consider to supply free COVID vaccines to Pakistan in near future.
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