Overview

• CM Ali Amin Gandapur announced he would step down on the PTI founder’s orders and publicly backed Suhail Afridi as his successor.
• PTI’s Salman Akram Raja confirmed the change, and Chairman Barrister Gohar said Gandapur will submit his resignation to the governor and that Afridi is the party’s nominee for chief minister.
• KP Governor Faisal Karim Kundi said no resignation has arrived and pledged to scrutinize any submission for constitutional compliance before signing.
• ISPR reported an intelligence-based operation in Orakzai that killed 19 militants it described as Indian-sponsored, with 11 security personnel killed, as corps commanders vowed a decisive response to any Indian aggression.
• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif engaged senior leaders to defuse PPP–PML-N tensions, while Punjab introduced an AI system to forecast smog, expand air-quality monitoring and deploy more electric buses.