Overview
- Provincial officials confirmed the safe recovery of the university vice chancellor and three other staff in Mastung after they went missing while traveling from Gwadar to Quetta, though authorities have given few details about who took them or why.
- The disappearances had alarmed the education community after a separate killing of a university lecturer in the same region increased fears for teachers’ safety.
- Punjab has issued a long list of proscribed and monitored groups and put a province‑wide Eid al‑Adha security plan into effect that deploys tens of thousands of officers, metal detectors, walk‑through gates and mobile surveillance to police mosques, markets and livestock bazaars.
- Human Rights Watch has opened a probe into reports that Pakistani workers were expelled from the UAE, and a Pakistan Shiʿa group’s claim of about 7,500 deportations remains unconfirmed by UAE or Pakistani authorities.
- The UN Secretary‑General condemned a recent train bombing in Balochistan as a serious terrorist act, and local police reported a separate property‑dispute shooting in Quetta that killed five members of one family, highlighting continued threats to civilians in the province.