Overview
- Airlines continue rerouting as regional restrictions ease unevenly, with Lebanon and Jordan reopening, selected Saudi–Turkey–Muscat routes operating, and roughly 10,000 flights disrupted over three days, including 500 cancellations at Pakistani airports and 174 on Middle East routes.
- Overflight traffic through Pakistan and Afghanistan has surged into some of the world’s busiest corridors, with civil aviation sources expecting added revenue from the increase.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif led an in‑camera briefing for parliamentary leaders on Iran, the Gulf and Afghanistan following outreach to Turkey’s President Erdogan, though PTI did not attend.
- Authorities tightened security nationwide, establishing joint Rawalpindi–Islamabad pickets, checkpoints and searches, imposing curbs on large gatherings, and reviewing law and order at Punjab’s apex committee.
- U.S. officials acknowledged Marine involvement in firing during unrest at the Karachi consulate that left 11 Pakistanis dead, with responsibility for the fatalities still unclear and police registering terror and murder cases.