Overview
- Jordan’s monarch received a detailed GIDS briefing on Pakistan’s defense production capabilities and observed a joint fire-and-manoeuvre exercise at Tilla with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, praising training standards.
- President Asif Ali Zardari awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan to King Abdullah II, who bestowed Jordan’s Wisam al-Nahda al-Murassa on Zardari during a state ceremony in Islamabad.
- ISPR said Field Marshal Asim Munir welcomed the delegation, stressed deeper Pakistan–Jordan defense ties, and was decorated by the King with the Order of Military Merit (First Degree).
- Leaders reaffirmed their Palestine position, rejecting displacement of Palestinians and supporting a two-state solution on pre‑June 1967 lines with Jerusalem as the capital.
- Separately, police investigated a fatal blast at a Kotli junk shop that left three dead and four injured, KP’s chief minister renewed funding and NFC grievances, and the information minister urged stronger state data protection and wider surveillance measures.