Overview
- NAB and the FIA have formally summoned Asad Mahmood over alleged illegal recruitments at Pakistan Post, with NAB setting a Nov. 10 appearance and its notice alleging about 4,252 hires against 3,938 approved posts and charges of fake documents and appointments to abolished positions.
- The federal cabinet approved transferring routine powers previously delegated to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister to the province’s governor for the emergency period, and ordered the governor to send monthly review reports to the federal government.
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police said operations in Lakki Marwat and Tank thwarted planned attacks, killing two militants including a reported suicide attacker, seizing weapons, ammunition and IEDs, and suffering several police injuries in the clashes.
- The Federal Board of Revenue widened sales‑tax rules to require tax stamps and activation for household electrical goods such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, televisions and storage batteries, and made activation mandatory before customs clearance for imports.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered action against petrol stations that did not pass on a recent price relief to consumers, and Pakistan secured adoption by large margins of three UN First Committee resolutions on arms control and security assurances.