PM orders opening of all highways for goods supply

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Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered removing all hurdles in the way of transportation of goods and opening all national highways to ensure smooth and adequate supply of food items from farms/factories to markets amid “panic buying” due to deadly coronavirus scare.

He also reiterated his commitment to providing ration at the doorsteps of the poor and daily wage earners — who are said to be the worst-affected segments of population during the countrywide lockdown enforced to prevent the spread of Covid-19 — through a force of young volunteers he is going to formally form on Monday.

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