Minister for Religious Affairs Dr Noorul Haq Qadri led Namaz-i-Taubah after Friday prayers at Aiwan-i-Sadr.

President Arif Alvi, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser and Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani were among those who offered the prayer held to seek Allah's forgiveness and rid the world of the coronavirus pandemic, Radio Pakistan reported.

The decision to offer the special prayers was made during a meeting between the president and the Council of Islamic Ideology a day earlier.