Overview
- Police and FC personnel were killed in separate attacks including an ambush on Kohat’s Shakerdrah Road, a quadcopter strike on an FC fort in Karak followed by firing on an ambulance, and a blast at Bhakkar’s Dajal check post.
- ISPR reported an intelligence‑based operation in Dera Ismail Khan that killed four militants and recovered weapons, with sanitisation efforts continuing in the area.
- Pakistan’s president, prime minister and senior leaders condemned the attacks, offered condolences to families of the dead and injured, and pledged to eradicate terrorism.
- A Lahore judicial magistrate restored YouTuber Saad Rehman’s frozen bank accounts and allowed him to upload videos under a gag on discussing his case, while an Islamabad sessions court granted Bushra Bibi bail in the Ramna police case.
- The Sindh cabinet approved Rs7 billion in compensation for Gul Plaza victims and other allocations, and Punjab’s chief minister cleared a free service to transport the deceased from hospitals and moved to regulate private ambulances.