Pakistan has declared a national day of mourning following the unfortunate deaths of two of its citizens in a ship sinking off the coast of Greece on Wednesday.
The national flag is at half-mast, and special prayers are being said for the victims of the Greece ship disaster.
At least 78 people were killed when the ill-fated boat, which had 400 to 750 people on board, sank near the Greek coast in the Mediterranean Sea. Meanwhile, according to recent media reports, 104 individuals were rescued and transported to Kalamata, Greece.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared a national day of mourning on Monday (today) and formed a four-member high-level committee to investigate the deaths of scores of Pakistanis in the Greece boat catastrophe.
The committee’s chairman is National Police Bureau Director General Ehsan Sadiq, and the other members are Foreign Ministry Additional Secretary for Africa Javed Imrani, DIG Poonch Zaheer Ahmed, and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Joint Secretary Faisal Nisar Chaudhry.
The investigation committee will gather information and facts about the people who died in the shipwreck in order to identify accountable parties and investigate the human trafficking issues.
