Overview
- The Pakistan Medical & Dental Council convened a high‑level meeting on Session 26‑2025 admissions and reaffirmed that MDCAT results carry a three‑year validity set in law under Parliament’s domain.
- PMDC said it will safeguard students’ interests by submitting all viable options to the judiciary with full transparency and will implement the court’s decision without exception.
- Rawalpindi police dispersed a sit‑in near Adiala Jail and detained several PTI workers, including Alima Khan, after access to Imran Khan was blocked and negotiations to clear the road failed.
- The All Pakistan Lawyers Action Committee split over calls to boycott the new Federal Constitutional Court and revised its stance to make any boycott conditional on bar association consultations, while rejecting the court’s necessity.
- The EU’s ambassador warned Pakistan that insufficient progress on human rights—citing enforced disappearances, blasphemy cases and shrinking media space—could endanger GSP+ trade preferences, as Balochistan’s chief minister separately urged federal action over airfares topping Rs75,000 on Quetta–Islamabad routes.