Overview

• Pakistan’s first hyperspectral satellite, HS-1, was launched with Chinese cooperation, reached orbit in about 28 minutes, and will undergo up to two months of in-orbit testing before full operation for environmental and agricultural monitoring.
• Alkhidmat Foundation formally launched a Rs15 billion Rebuild Gaza programme for post-ceasefire rehabilitation, citing 35 relief consignments totaling about 5,000 tons already dispatched and roughly Rs8.1 billion spent to date.
• The Lahore High Court issued a written ruling upholding prescribed age limits for direct recruitment of Punjab Police sub-inspectors, rejecting petitions seeking age relaxations as a policy matter outside judicial interference.
• The Islamabad High Court gave police three days to recover a missing NCCIIA deputy director in an abduction case and questioned how a suspect vehicle moved through the capital despite checkpoints and cameras, warning senior officials could be summoned if recovery fails.
• Rawalpindi police registered a murder and attempted murder FIR naming PML-N MPA Chaudhry Naeem Ijaz, his brothers and others after a Sohal Adda shooting that left one man dead and two injured, with the complainant alleging a land dispute motive.