Today’s outlook: Classes 9-12 reopen across Pakistan, Umerkot by-election underway

Here are some of the stories we will be following today [Monday]:

• Students of grades nine, 10, 11 and 12 return to school. Educational institutions have been instructed to ensure SOP implementation on campus and face masks are compulsory.
• The by-election for Umerkot’s PS-52 is being held today. A total of 50 polling stations have been declared sensitive.
• Opposition parties part of the Pakistan Democratic Movement will meet in Islamabad. They will discuss their protest outside the Election Commission of Pakistan tomorrow (January 19)
• A hearing of the presidential reference on the Senate elections has been adjourned without hearing.
• PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will head to Sukkur.