Today’s outlook: Anti-polio campaign begins in Punjab, KP, Karachi

Here are some of the stories we will be following today (Monday):

• The joint opposition demanded on Sunday Prime Minister Imran Khan step down from his post. It announced a nationwide campaign to rid people of the incumbent Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf government from October.
• Federal Information Minister Shibli Faraz has demanded that a show cause notice be issued against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech in the APC. He said that the speech clearly indicated opposition to the FATF bill.
• The opposition has started a Pakistan Democratic Movement.
• A five-day anti-polio campaign will begin in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Karachi today.
• An accountability court in Lahore will hear the Ashiana Iqbal Housing case. The National Accountability Bureau has summoned witnesses today. The main accused in the case, Ahmed Cheema and Shahid Shafiq, will appear before the court.
• The water board has decided to cover manholes in Karachi with GRPC manhole covers.
• PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif will appear before the Lahore High court today in a money laundering case. He has petitioned for bail.
• The Punjab police have failed to arrest the prime suspect in the Lahore motorway rape case. He has been on the run for 13 days.
• The men who raped and murdered a six-year-old girl in Karachi’s PIB Colony have been arrested. According to the police, the suspects’ DNA matched the DNA found at the crime scene and on the victim.
• The yearly session of the United Nation’s General Assembly will begin today. Prime Minister Imran Khan will address the session on September 25.
• Sindh has decided to delay the resumption of primary and secondary classes in the province as the number of coronavirus cases increases.
• ICYMI: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif addressed the opposition’s APC on Sunday via video link from London. Here is what he had to say about Prime Minister Imran Khan.

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