Overview
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s cabinet approved two Islamic insurance entities, allocating Rs2 billion for a General Takaful company and Rs3 billion for a Family Takaful company.
- The KP cabinet also cleared a Rs3,825 million supplementary grant to expand the Safe Cities project beyond Peshawar to Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, Lakki Marwat and North Waziristan.
- A three-year Ehsaas Education Internship program in KP will start with Rs207 million, placing about 850 young people in schools each year.
- Lahore’s commissioner ordered deputy commissioners to compile separate rural and urban open-drain lists, set cleaning SOPs, display schedules with feedback, enforce staff accountability and post warning notices, with roughly 19,000 of about 21,000 potholes already repaired and executive public washrooms being activated at major petrol pumps.
- Karachi Bar leaders announced a City Court strike over an FIR dispute involving YouTuber Rajab Butt, said police would be barred from the premises, called an emergency meeting for 11 a.m., and warned protests would escalate after traffic was already disrupted on MA Jinnah Road.