Overview
- Security officials said they shot down five drones targeting a check post in Kharan, Balochistan and reported no casualties after the response.
- The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administration has opened wide probes into alleged irregularities from Suhail Afridi’s ten‑month tenure and has asked Interpol to help locate and repatriate an associate known as Abdulhadi (Patang).
- The National Assembly approved creation of a 30‑member Election Reforms Committee on Friday with the Speaker due to issue formal notification and finalize members.
- The Lahore High Court set aside a lower‑court order that had required a wife to return six tola of gold and ordered all Punjab public hospitals to end the traditional token registration system within four weeks.
- PTI’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa parliamentary party backed talks with the federal government to seek an end to governor rule and emergency measures while accounts about detainee Noorin Niazi’s hospital transfer and family access remain disputed.