On the first day of the National Assembly’s fresh session, the opposition called for threadbare debate on the Covid-19 pandemic, locust attack, sugar scam, air crash in Karachi and proposed contracting out of the airports’ management, as many of its members openly violated the social distancing measures adopted across the world to ward off cases of new coronavirus.
Speaker Asad Qaiser, who had himself contracted the virus, was chairing an assembly session for the first time since recovering from Covid-19. And the session was mainly devoted to paying tribute to MNA Munir Aurakzai, who died recently of the fatal disease.
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