Overview
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s cabinet approved General and Family takaful firms with initial allocations of Rs2 billion and Rs3 billion, respectively, to launch Sharia-compliant risk protection.
- The cabinet also sanctioned a Rs3.825 billion supplementary grant to expand the Safe Cities project beyond Peshawar to Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, Lakki Marwat and North Waziristan.
- Lahore Division Commissioner Maryam Khan directed separate rural and urban open-drain lists, cleaning SOPs, posted schedules and warning signage, reporting about 19,000 of roughly 21,000 potholes repaired and executive public washrooms being activated at major petrol pumps.
- Karachi Bar announced a strike at City Court over the lack of an FIR against YouTuber Rajab Butt, declaring police would be barred from entering until a case is filed and staging protests that disrupted traffic on MA Jinnah Road.
- Army Chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir told a national workshop that Indian-sponsored proxies are undermining Balochistan’s development and pledged a decisive response to any direct or indirect breach of Pakistan’s territorial integrity.