Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that prime minister did not say the lockdown was enforced by "elites".

"What happens in politics sometimes is that you are quoted out of context," Qureshi said. "PM did not say elites enforced lockdown, I shall clarify."

Qureshi went on to say the PM meant that while the upper class can afford to stay in a lockdown, the poor cannot afford this luxury.