Overview
- The Counter-Terrorism Department said five militants were killed in a Sibi exchange of fire and that weapons, ammunition, maps and documents were recovered.
- The Election Commission of Pakistan withdrew its notification on Punjab local government delimitations, altering preparations for upcoming polls.
- Karachi rescue officials reported a gas-leak explosion at a Garden-area hotel that burned two people, who were moved to Civil Hospital’s burns ward.
- In Karachi’s Orangi Town, a traffic crash killed a man and enraged residents set the implicated water tanker on fire.
- PTI’s Shahram Khan Tarakai urged the federal government to sit with the party to address flood victims and weighed in on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa political matters.