Overview
- Police said seven people were killed when attackers struck a local peace committee office in Bannu overnight.
- A bomb disposal squad defused an improvised device fixed to a bridge in Basiakhel, averting major damage, according to police.
- Security forces conducted operations in the district and killed eight militants linked to the attack, ISPR reported.
- The Election Commission summoned Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Suhail Afridi in person over alleged threats to election staff but granted him exemption after his lawyer appeared.
- In Islamabad, the CDA board set up an all–Director General committee to remove inter‑departmental delays, while a federal gems review flagged around $2 billion in undocumented export potential and urged modern mining and value‑addition.
- Sindh reported strong third‑party validation of what it calls Pakistan’s largest digital learning programme, and the province and FAO agreed to extend the Transforming the Indus Basin project by one year.