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.
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.
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.
At Türkiye’s national day event in Islamabad, the prime minister thanked Ankara for standing by Pakistan during Marka-i-Haq and invited Turkish investors to Karachi’s Erdogan economic zone.
The interior minister said JUI-F leaders had urged the government to impose governor’s rule and “rid us of” the PTI, and denied that his trip to Tehran was about a defence pact.
Balakrishnan will hold talks with Ishaq Dar, call on Pakistan’s leadership and exchange a disaster-management accord, a year before Singapore takes over as chair of ASEAN.
Sulaiman Isa Khan, the elder son of Imran Khan, has joined X under his father’s tribal surname, and his first post was viewed more than 750,000 times.
