Overview
- An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Rawalpindi directed police to register a murder FIR against named CTD inspectors and constables after CCTV showed Naeem alias Guddu taken from his home on Nov. 30 and later killed in an alleged Chakwal encounter.
- Orders include naming all officers visible in the footage and recording the victim’s sister’s statement, with the judge stressing that only courts can decide punishment and that extrajudicial killings are unlawful.
- Separately, CTD DIG Aizaz Goraya announced the arrest of Sajid Ahmed in Balochistan for allegedly moving weapons from Panjgur to Turbat and disseminating banned groups’ content, alongside additional detentions linked to logistics and reconnaissance.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, during a Quetta visit, voiced satisfaction over intelligence-based operations said to have killed 784 militants and criticized support for extremists from neighboring countries.
- PTI leaders rejected assertions from the military’s media wing, urged full implementation of the National Action Plan, and faced curbs on planned Karachi events as government figures argued the party lacks capacity to mount a street campaign.