Overview
- Security agencies carried out intelligence-based CTD raids in Attock and Kohat in mid-June that officials say killed multiple militants and reinforced a declared zero-tolerance counterterrorism posture.
- Sindh presented a Rs3.562 trillion provincial budget on Wednesday that promises no new taxes and raises for salaries, pensions, and the minimum wage while opposition members staged a walkout.
- Punjab leaders said their budget exercise restrained spending and boosted provincial revenue, and federal ministers have invoked recent security and diplomatic outcomes to argue for competence.
- MQM has made its federal budget support conditional on the restoration of the Sindh governorship and changes to Article 140A, turning the budget vote into a live bargaining point for the coalition.
- Parliamentary debate has sharpened over governance and fiscal institutions with lawmakers accusing the FBR of malpractice and the National Dialogue Committee and opposition demanding the government resign to allow a national unity solution.