Overview
- A written judgment from the Islamabad High Court quashed a police case tied to disputed arrests, labeled such detentions as kidnapping, fined officers involved in a suspected fake encounter, and directed the return of seized cash, vehicles and jewelry to the complainant.
- Thick winter fog shut major stretches of the M-1, M-2, M-4, M-5 and M-11 motorways and disrupted air travel, with authorities issuing alerts as drivers faced hazardous visibility.
- Karachi’s SIU police, working with a federal intelligence agency, arrested two alleged extortion operatives accused of threatening a factory owner and firing at his home, and separately detained a three-member robbery gang, recovering pistols and stolen phones.
- Police in Wah Cantt registered an honour killing case after Somaira Aziz, recently back from Qatar, was fatally shot, with suspects named in the FIR and investigators pursuing leads after the attackers fled.
- Officials reported four unidentified bodies found in a hilly area of Harnai and four recovered from a manhole near Karachi’s Mai Kolachi, while a parliamentary committee shortlisted Anbarin Jan and Brig (r) Anwar Matin Haider for PEMRA chair and forwarded a recommendation to the prime minister.