Today’s outlook: Lahore considers complete lockdown, Pakistan observes Shab-e-Baraat
via SAMAA
Here are some of the stories we will be following today (Monday):
- The third wave of coronavirus has tightened its grip around Pakistan. The district administration and the Punjab health department have suggested imposing a complete lockdown in Lahore.
- All outdoor and indoor wedding ceremonies across Pakistan have been banned, the NCOC announced on Sunday. The new restrictions will be implemented from April 5.
- A video of PTI MNA Ali Amin Gandapur helping a seven-year-old child drive a car is circulating on social media.
- The Sindh government has announced a public holiday on Tuesday on account of Shab-e-Baraat.
- A Pakistani Uber driver from Gujrat has been murdered by two women in the US.
- Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the money people pay as their house rent can be instead put to making a house of their own through the Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme.
- The Pakistan cricket team has started preparations for its series against South Africa. The first one-day match will be played on April 2.
- Special Assistant to the PM Shahbaz Gill has been summoned by a session court in the Lahore Waste Management Company case.
- PML-N’s Khwaja Asif and Shehbaz Sharif will go to court for bail.
- Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has left for Tajikistan on a three-day trip. He will attend the Heart of Asia conference.