Overview

• Justice Ali Zia Bajwa ordered the PTA to submit full details of unregistered SIMs by Oct. 6, questioned mobile operators over lax controls, and called senior cybercrime and PTA officials to propose a lasting fix to SIM-linked fraud.
• The court directed immediate blocking of illicit SIMs and referenced extortion schemes run through mobile wallets such as JazzCash, warning the PTA chairman could be called to account if compliance falters.
• An Islamabad District and Sessions Court framed charges against Iman Mazari and her husband Hadi Ali Chatha in a controversial-tweet case, with proceedings opened by Judge Mohammad Afzal Majoka and prosecution witnesses summoned.
• In a separate judicial action, the Lahore High Court expressed dissatisfaction over a missing-person probe, set a recovery deadline of Oct. 2, and summoned the Director FIA Lahore and the DIG Investigation.
• Parliament approved a resolution condemning Imran Khan over alleged mistreatment of a journalist as the Parliamentary Reporters Association walked out, while police pursued active cases including a suspected murder–suicide in Karachi, a Rawalpindi suspect killed after an encounter, a Sargodha extortion-assault FIR with raids ongoing, and a fatal acid attack in Liaquatpur that prompted a demand for an immediate report.