Overview
- The Gilgit‑Baltistan assembly election will be held on June 7, prompting final door‑to‑door campaigning and heavy security deployments across the region.
- The Pakistan Peoples Party and PML‑N have pressed large pledges on rights, jobs and revenue sharing while the PPP repeats claims that its votes were tampered with in the last contest using 'Form 45'.
- Election logistics list about 958,480 voters, 403 candidates and thousands of polling workers, and authorities have sent polling material and roughly 15,000 police and local scouts to secure polling stations.
- In nearby Azad Kashmir the administration ordered mobile and internet services to be suspended until June 12 to control a planned shutdown by the Joint Public Action Committee.
- On the national front the federal government announced a 1 percent fixed‑tax scheme for small traders, NAB said it recovered large tracts of state land, and the National Cyber Crime agency filed an FIR against MPA S. Chaudhry in the Momena Iqbal case while courts granted him interim bail.