Overview

• The Punjab government issued a notification returning Imran Khan’s May 9 GHQ case to jail proceedings, with a hearing at Adiala Jail expected and prison officials requesting additional security.
• Party sources say the president, prime minister and PPP chairman have a meeting scheduled in the coming days to address frictions, as PPP readies its Central Executive Committee if talks do not progress.
• Sindh’s cabinet approved releasing 1.265 million metric tons of wheat to mills and chakkis at Rs 9,500 per 100 kg and adopted a surrender-and-rehabilitation policy for bandits in kacha areas.
• Senior security sources publicly rejected claims that Pakistan offered Pasni port to the United States or is holding talks with PTI, and Karachi’s SIU reported killing a highly wanted suspect linked to an extortion gang.
• Heavy rain and windstorms hit Karachi and Punjab, causing power outages and fatal roof collapses in Raiwind, and local reports said a rail-track explosion near Shikarpur derailed four Jaffar Express carriages.