Overview
- PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan rejected The Economist’s article as defamatory and said the party will pursue legal action, calling the piece malicious and false.
- Punjab information minister Azma Bukhari and other government figures publicly endorsed the report’s claims about Bushra Bibi’s influence on state decisions, citing it as accurate.
- Investigators probing the Islamabad courthouse suicide attack reported the arrest of another facilitator and a tailor, with sources saying the explosive vest was made in Peshawar and the suspect admitted contacts with a group referred to as Fitna al-Khawarij.
- Interior minister Mohsin Naqvi stated that the perpetrators of the Islamabad and Wana attacks came from Afghanistan and praised the Army and Frontier Corps for rescuing cadets and teachers in Wana.
- Islamabad High Court administration began preparing courtrooms and bench moves to operationalize the Federal Constitutional Court under the 27th Amendment, as planning minister Ahsan Iqbal said the new court will let the Supreme Court focus on its core docket.