Overview
- Traffic police reported citywide congestion across major Karachi corridors, with flow severely disrupted from Shahrah-e-Faisal and University Road to multiple inner-city routes.
- Dog-bite cases exceeded 800 in the first week of January as Sindh’s 2022 rabies-control program lagged, with limited vehicles, few active centers and roughly 30% of allocated funds utilized.
- PTI received an NOC to hold a Bagh-e-Jinnah rally under strict rules that bar incendiary or anti-state speech, require maintaining traffic flow and mandate an early finish, with authorities reserving the right to revoke permission for security reasons.
- Peshawar’s anti-terrorism court in the Radio Pakistan attack case placed a Punjab Forensic Lab report on file and summoned the investigating officer for Jan 26, noting more than 80 accused including named politicians, with nine still at large.
- Sindh directed immediate action on 13,603 corruption complaints across 22 departments, Punjab extended higher-education closures to Jan 16 due to severe cold, and Pakistan told an OIC session it condemns Israel’s recognition of Somaliland and fully supports Somalia’s sovereignty.