Overview

• Public endorsements of the Pakistan–Saudi strategic defense pact were issued by MNA Sheikh Aftab Ahmed and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, who cast the agreement as strengthening bilateral security ties.
• Punjab officials reported large-scale relief in Alipur with a tent city housing roughly 50,000 people receiving daily food, milk and water, as operations move from rescue to organized rehabilitation and road reopenings.
• Counter-Terrorism Department forces killed three militants near Lala Chena, identifying one as the alleged mastermind of the Chamakni suicide attack in Peshawar.
• Pakistan Railways halted the Peshawar–Quetta Jaffar Express at Jacobabad over security concerns and said the train would be taken to Sibi on Sunday morning.
• Sindh’s police chief ordered formal inquiries into four Karachi DSPs over alleged extortion and related offenses, directing that the inquiry report be submitted by 26 September.