Today’s outlook: Inter-provincial wheat movement resumes, National Assembly meets

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

• A six-storey residential building collapsed in Lyari’s Khadda Market Sunday night. Two women’s bodies have been pulled out from under the debris and 12 people have sustained injuries in the incident, according to rescue workers. It is feared that 50 people may have lost their lives. A rescue operation is under way.
• According to a survey by Gallup Pakistan, the number of people with hepatitis has been on the rise. Last year, 6.4 million people got their hepatitis tests done, of which 41% tested positive.
• The government has decided that the FIA, NAB and other investigation agencies will be asked to make cases against those found involved in causing a sugar crisis in the country, according to a report by the sugar inquiry commission. PM Khan’s Special Assistant Shahzad Akbar said that NAB will be sent references of all the sugar subsidies given in the last 25 years.
• Multiple cities across Pakistan have been facing a petrol shortage.
• The prime minister has decided to remove all restrictions on the inter-provincial movement of wheat and flour. Restrictions on quantity have also been removed and the private sector has been allowed to import.
• The federal government should share its plan regarding the Pakistan Steel Mills with us, the Sindh government is willing to run it, Education Minister Saeed Ghani said. He added that the government should take all the liabilities and let them run the mill instead of privatising it.
• In the last two months, since the start of the novel coronavirus, Pakistan has seen a 189% increase in the cases of online harassment.
• PTI member Jai Kumar tested positive for the novel coronavirus. He had attended the National Assembly session on Friday. He had also hosted a dinner at his place recently which was attended by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. The minister and his family will get tested too now.
• Pakistan’s former cricket captain Salim Malik has warned people from accusing him of match fixing again. He said that the court has declared him innocent and if anyone else defames him again he will file a case against them.
• A session of the National Assembly and Senate will be held today.
• Public and inter province transport will resume in Balochistan today.

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