Overview
- The Supreme Court‑hosted national prison‑reform conference delivered the Islamabad Declaration, with provincial chief ministers agreeing to set timelines, allocate resources and install monitoring to ease jail congestion and boost health, legal and rehabilitation services for prisoners.
- Disaster authorities have active flood warnings after heavy monsoon rains; national and provincial agencies warned of glacial‑lake and flash‑flood risks while officials reported at least dozens of deaths and widespread property damage from recent storms.
- Lahore education inspectors found 760 unregistered academies and tuition centres and have launched registration and fitness checks that could lead to closures of unsafe buildings after recent deadly roof collapses.
- Prosecutors in the Karachi Gul Plaza fire case returned the police charge‑sheet as incomplete, citing missing inquiry documents, failure to examine why emergency exits were blocked and other major investigative gaps.
- Punjab police tightened security orders for Chinese and other foreign nationals, ordered intelligence‑led sweeps to identify illegal residents, and launched faster removal procedures, a move officials say responds to wider security concerns and existing foreign ties.