Overview
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s cabinet approved two Islamic insurance companies, allocating Rs2 billion for a General Takaful Company and Rs3 billion for a Family Takaful Company.
- The cabinet also cleared a Rs3,825 million supplementary grant to extend the Safe Cities project beyond Peshawar to Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, Lakki Marwat and North Waziristan.
- An Ehsaas Education Internship was authorized with Rs207 million this year for a three-year scheme offering 850 school-based internships annually.
- Lahore’s commissioner directed separate rural and urban lists of open drains with cleaning SOPs and KPI enforcement, reported about 19,000 of roughly 21,000 potholes repaired, and moved to activate executive public washrooms at major petrol pumps with PHA and WASA coordination.
- Karachi Bar announced a City Court strike and said police will be barred from entry until an FIR is registered against YouTuber Rjab Butt, after an FIR by his lawyer named more than 15 lawyers over an alleged assault and missing Rs300,000 with an emergency meeting set for 11 a.m.