Overview
- Inspector General Punjab directed a province-wide high alert, tightening security for religious sites, markets, key installations and foreign nationals, and enforcing drone restrictions under Section 144.
- Police reported 250 intelligence-based operations in five days, questioning 6,139 people and detaining 28 suspects, alongside 2,545 combing operations that questioned over 76,000 and led to 509 detentions.
- Material seized in recent sweeps included more than one kilogram of explosive substance, 11 detonators, safety fuse wire and multiple firearms, with orders to continue door-to-door checks and hotel verifications.
- Authorities confirmed six people were killed in a house attack in Turbat’s Belida area and two Punjab police officers died in a suicide strike at the Dajjal check post near Bhakkar, with investigations and security reviews ongoing.
- The Presidency set a joint session of Parliament for 2 March with President Asif Ali Zardari to address it, while the Lahore High Court ordered PTI leader Usman Dar’s removal from the ECL and the Supreme Court ruled acquittal does not guarantee reinstatement in disciplined forces.