Overview
- Investigators say the Counter Terrorism Department has traced a network linked to the Kohat police-lines mosque attack and believe two militant groups cooperated, with arrests and forensic work continuing.
- A CTD intelligence operation near Warsak Road in Peshawar killed one suspected militant and left CTD officer Mohammad Afaq dead with three other officers wounded while search-and-clear operations continue.
- Authorities detained a Rawalpindi gang accused of selling sensitive data on senior officials to buyers abroad, a development raised in a Senate IT committee that also discussed tighter controls on live social-media content.
- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders resolved to press ahead with a peaceful long march starting 27 September and banned weapons for participants as local police ordered closures and other security measures in key transit points.
- The federal government reported more than five million registrations for its Fuel Relief Scheme, said it will publish only selected non-sensitive civil-servant asset details to meet IMF conditions, plans 174 parliamentary amendments, and saw the Lahore High Court stay FBR coercive action against MEPCO.