Pakistan's borders with Iran, Afghanistan, India to remain shut for another 2 weeks.

ISLAMABAD -- The government on Friday decided to keep Pakistan's western and Indian borders closed for another two weeks as part of precautions to stem the novel coronavirus.

The decision came at a meeting of the National Coordination Committee held in Islamabad with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair today.

In a tweet after the meeting, Special Assistant to PM on National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning Moeed Yousuf said: 'In the NCC for COVID-19 meeting on the 26th, we have decided to keep Pakistan's western [border with Iran and Afghanistan] and Indian borders completely closed for another 2 weeks.'

The meeting took an overview of the situation arising out of coronavirus and measures to cope with it.

The participants gave a practical demonstration of the precautionary measures to avoid coronavirus by observing social distance in their seating arrangement.

Earlier, on March...