Overview
- PTI approved Mahmood Khan Achakzai for leader of the opposition in the National Assembly and Allama Nasser Abbas for the Senate role.
- Founding PTI figure Akbar S. Babar argued the Achakzai nomination violates the law and a prior Supreme Court decision and called it a test for the speaker and ruling party.
- PPP leader Nasser Hussain Shah voiced support for recognizing Achakzai as the new opposition leader.
- CTD reported five militants killed in a Sibi exchange of fire and said weapons, ammunition, maps and important documents were recovered.
- Rescue officials said a gas leak triggered an explosion at a Garden-area hotel in Karachi, burning two people who were taken to Civil Hospital’s burns ward.