Opposition leaders are consulting PTI before formally joining a 30-member parliamentary committee on electoral reforms, after a PPP delegation invited them on Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s instructions.
Eleven fishermen who spent four to nine years in Indian jails after drifting across the maritime boundary were reunited with their families at the Edhi Centre in Karachi.
Security sources say the army destroyed several Afghan Taliban posts and installations across from South Waziristan and Parachinar after unprovoked firing on Angoor Adda, with Taliban personnel fleeing their positions.
Vivian Balakrishnan held talks with Ishaq Dar, signed a disaster-management MoU, discussed resuming direct flights, and met PM Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir in Rawalpindi.
A policeman was martyred when Fitna al-Khawarij terrorists attacked the Silai Pati police post in Bajaur’s Barang tehsil; the attackers fled after police returned fire.
Indian-sponsored Fitna al-Hindustan terrorists tried to strike a check-post in Kharan district, but all five drones were destroyed before reaching their target, security sources said.
PRIME puts the recurring bill at Rs47-57bn for two new provinces and says the smallest of 30 proposed units would spend almost half their NFC share just running a government.
The win gives the Asma Jahangir Group another term at the head of Pakistan’s top lawyers’ body after Shah defeated the Professional Group’s Sardar Aman Khan.
Bangladesh’s Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi said Dhaka’s membership would take the Pakistan-Saudi-Türkiye defence pact to the Bay of Bengal, and praised Pakistan’s peace efforts.
The interior minister told MNAs that countries want Pakistan’s 70,000 official blue passports reduced to 25,000 before granting travel concessions, and that the green passport’s standing is improving.
