Overview
- Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider Khan called the PPP–PML-N partnership a compulsion rather than affection, acknowledging political costs for PPP and warning the system could be derailed by minor irresponsibility.
- He said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had assured PPP that its reservations would be addressed soon, even as he noted unmet commitments by PML-N leaders.
- On an inter-provincial dispute, the Punjab governor pledged to take up Punjab’s restriction on flour deliveries to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, arguing K-P should not be blocked from supplies.
- K-P Governor Faisal Karim Kundi urged a provincial jirga to press for the province’s rights and called for a new NFC award reflecting K-P’s expanded population and area.
- Highlighting security concerns, Kundi said most militant activity affecting K-P originates from across the Afghan border and pressed for regular intelligence-based operations, while Punjab’s governor defended K-P CM Sohail Afridi’s meeting with jailed PTI founder Imran Khan as a legitimate political contact.