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EU Flags GSP+ Risk as Pakistan Confronts Legal Disputes, Detentions and Policy Moves

Trade privileges hang on human-rights progress, sharpening scrutiny of Pakistan’s governance.

Overview

  • Pakistan Medical and Dental Council convened a high-level session on the 26-2025 admissions policy and will present all viable options to the court, pledging to implement whatever the court decides.
  • Rawalpindi police cleared a sit-in near Adiala Jail at Gorakhpur Naka and detained Alima Khan along with several activists after she refused to end the protest.
  • The All Pakistan Lawyers Action Committee opposed the 27th constitutional amendment but softened a call to boycott the Federal Constitutional Court by making any boycott contingent on bar association consultations.
  • EU Ambassador Raimondas Karoblis warned that Pakistan’s GSP+ trade benefits could be jeopardized without progress on human rights, citing enforced disappearances, rising blasphemy cases and shrinking media space.
  • Karachi’s traffic police announced FIRs against vehicle owners who conceal number plates to evade e-challans and outlined additional steps such as dedicated motorcycle lanes on Shahrah-e-Faisal and strict speed enforcement.