Overview
- Anti‑Corruption teams, acting after Lahore High Court directions, seized printing machines and millions of counterfeit court‑fee tickets and arrested multiple suspects in a racket officials say diverted about 1.5 billion rupees.
- The probe is active and expanding, with authorities saying they expect further arrests and financial reconciliations as records are audited and more personnel are questioned.
- The Supreme Court ruled that the federal ombudsman cannot make final determinations in complex property and inheritance disputes and sent contested cases back to competent civil courts in a judgment authored by Justice Ayesha Malik.
- Punjab is rolling out policing reforms at the same time: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz opened a CM Crime Surveillance Unit for digital monitoring of police performance, the IGP convened a Police Executive Board meeting, and DIG Investigation ordered transfers for 37 in‑charge investigators.
- Parallel enforcement and public‑service moves include NCCIA raids on two illegal call centres that yielded 12 arrests and 28 digital devices, LESCO’s October electricity‑theft enforcement data and protocol and infrastructure steps such as a new state lounge at Islamabad airport and Safe Cities reuniting a Bangladeshi woman with her family.