Overview
- Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Aeen announced a nationwide 'black day' the day after the amendment’s approval and will convene a consultative conference in Islamabad this week to map out rallies, urging lawyers to wear black armbands.
- PTI parliamentary leader Senator Ali Zafar pledged to oppose the measure in Parliament, arguing it threatens judicial independence through proposed judge transfers and a new federal court structure and by conferring sweeping immunities, and he called for broad consensus before any constitutional change.
- Opposition figures including Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar and Mahmood Khan Achakzai denounced the approval as elite-driven and 'fake' and signaled the start of a countrywide political campaign.
- Punjab’s Home Department formally extended Section 144 across the province through 15 November, banning public gatherings, rallies, loudspeaker use and weapons displays, with exemptions for weddings, funerals, on-duty officials and courts.
- Separately, Lahore’s air quality reached hazardous levels as authorities reported thousands of vehicle inspections and hundreds of fines, PIA’s Airbus AP-BLS faced a second day of flight-control computer faults causing delays, police filed an FIR over a viral assault by an alleged fake pir, arrested a suspect in a fatal Sargodha crash, and reports from Kupwara said two youths were killed during an Indian forces operation.