Today’s outlook: Joint parliamentary session called, CCI meets
via SAMAA
Here are some of the news stories we are following today (Thursday):
- Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair a meeting of the Council of Common Interests and discuss an eight-point agenda. All chief ministers will attend the meeting via video link.
- Schools across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will reopen today to train teachers on coronavirus guidelines.
- A joint session of Parliament will start at 5pm. The House will vote on the Mutual Legal Assistance (Criminal Matters) Bill.
- Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri has been appointed the new spokesperson for the Foreign Office. Aisha Farooqui, the current spokesperson, will give her last weekly briefing today.
- Emergency medical aid and pop-up field hospitals were dispatched to Lebanon Wednesday along with rescue experts and tracking dogs as the world reached out to the victims of the explosion that devastated Beirut.
- The US dollar has touched Rs168.2 in the interbank market for the first time in over two weeks.
- ICYMI: At least 39 people were injured in a cracker attack on a rally of Jamaat-e-Islami in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal. Click here to read the full story.