ISLAMABAD: In response to the sad boat accident in Morocco, the federal government has made the decision to launch a high-level probe.
According to sources who spoke to News on Saturday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has established a special committee to supervise the investigation.
A boat carrying undocumented migrants from the African country of Mauritania to Spain sank on Thursday. Forty-four Pakistanis were among the fifty migrants who perished.
According to a report from the Pakistani Embassy, 36 Pakistani citizens were saved, while the remaining individuals are still unaccounted for and should be assumed dead.
With 86 migrants on board, the doomed boat set off from Mauritania on January 2. 66 of the passengers were Pakistani nationals, according to Moroccan authorities.
