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Today’s outlook: Pakistan debates lockdown, Airbus experts return to France

Here are some of the stories we are expecting to follow today (Monday):

  • Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair a National Coordination Committee meeting in Islamabad to decide whether the coronavirus lockdown will be relaxed or intensified. Senior government officials and military leadership will attend the meeting.
  • A team of the Sindh Building Control Authority will visit the site where PIA flight PK-8303 crashed in Karachi’s Model Colony. An 11-member team of Airbus experts will return to France today to complete the investigation into the incident. Two Pakistani investigators will accompany them. They are taking with them the voice recorder and data boxes for analysis.
  • Offices of the federal government’s educational institutions will reopen from today.
  • The Karachi Transport Ittehad has announced that it will be resuming public transportation.
  • Two doctors died of the coronavirus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, according to Health Minister Taimur Jhagra.
  • Two officials at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi were being expelled for “indulging in espionage activities”, India’s foreign ministry said late Sunday
  • ICYMI: The government reduced on Sunday prices of petroleum products by as much as Rs11.88 per litre. Click here to read the full story.


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