Overview
- Election authorities established control rooms at federal and Punjab headquarters, with Additional Director General Haroon Shinwari overseeing monitoring.
- Polling is reported in progress at all stations under strict security, and voters have been urged to cast ballots without fear.
- Mobile phones are barred inside polling stations, and disabled people, pregnant women, the elderly and transgender voters receive priority to protect access and ballot secrecy.
- Media coverage highlights Lahore as the most closely watched contest, testing whether PML-N has reasserted its hold in the provincial capital.
- Separately, KP Chief Minister Suhail Afridi has opened consultations to expand his cabinet, party sources indicate possible additions of around five ministers plus advisers and special assistants, and local politics featured a fisherfolk rally in Noshero Feroze pressing for relief as well as Pir Ghulam Fareed publicly praising PM Shehbaz Sharif and CM Maryam Nawaz.