Overview
- The Gilgit‑Baltistan Assembly chose its top officers on Monday with PPP’s Amjad Hussain elected chief minister unopposed and Imran Nadeem and Malik Kifayat‑ur‑Rehman named speaker and deputy speaker without contest.
- Official notifications show the PPP won 13 seats, PML‑N 9 seats and Istehkam Pakistan 6 seats, and Istehkam’s leadership has publicly agreed to back a PPP‑led government.
- Three constituency notifications were withheld by appellate or supreme court orders, leaving the assembly’s final seat count and coalition arithmetic unresolved.
- Separate judicial rulings in Sindh led to the release of two accused in the long‑running Baldia Factory case, a development that has prompted calls from victims’ groups to reopen legal review.
- At the national and provincial level, the government said Pakistan hosted talks in Switzerland that produced a US‑Iran ceasefire agreement and Punjab authorities put large Muharram security and traffic plans into effect, deploying roughly 60,000 officers and thousands of traffic staff in Lahore.