Overview
- The federal government issued an official Eid‑al‑Adha holiday notification for May 26–28, confirming arrangements for the long weekend and prompting stepped‑up market and pilgrimage security plans.
- Reporting says Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s China trip is set for May 24–26 and may lead officials to move the federal budget presentation to around June 5, a change described as possible by government sources.
- This week the Supreme Court issued notices in the Rawalpindi honour‑killing appeal and deferred further hearings to early June, while the Senate interior committee ordered that the detained narcotics suspect known as Anmol or “Pinky” be referred to by her legal name after a briefing disclosed a bank account holding about 90 lakh rupees.
- Law‑enforcement bodies reported concrete enforcement wins: the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency arrested three suspects including a banker and seized SIMs, Punjab drug inspectors raided and sealed an unlicensed medical‑device factory in Sundar, and railways police announced a major land‑recovery push.
- Contested incidents of alleged custodial violence and a death in Karachi custody have gone public along with viral videos of heavy-handed conduct during a Lahore encroachment sweep, prompting public outcry and protest calls from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa leaders.