Overview
- The Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Aain Pakistan alliance set out protests for next week, with lawmakers to walk from the National Assembly to the Supreme Court and from the Punjab Assembly to the Lahore High Court, a KP resolution opposing the 27th amendment, and a nationwide black day on Friday.
- Alliance leaders rejected the 27th, and related, constitutional changes as violations of the constitution’s basic structure and saluted Justices Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah following their resignations.
- Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said the perpetrators of the Islamabad explosion and the Wana cadet college attack came from Afghanistan and asserted that local people were not involved.
- During a visit to Cadet College Wana, Naqvi praised the Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps for rescuing students and teachers and said the attackers sought a large-scale atrocity.
- Information Minister Attaullah Tarar reported arrests in the Islamabad kachehri blast case, while Punjab’s new Centre of Excellence on Countering Violent Extremism approved its leadership posts, oversight committees, a three‑year roadmap, consultant hires, and a revised financial plan.