Overview
- Punjab began disbursing its Rs100 billion flood‑relief and rehabilitation package, opening more than 71,000 beneficiary bank accounts, setting up 75 aid camps and issuing cash and ATM cards, including Rs50,000 payouts at a Depalpur event.
- Officials briefed that the first phase covers 15 districts and that bank cards allow withdrawals up to Rs100,000 per day to a total of Rs300,000, with on‑site facilitation to complete biometrics and distribution.
- Al‑Khidmat Foundation formally launched a Rs15 billion ‘Rebuild Gaza’ program, reporting Rs8.1 billion already spent and 35 consignments totaling 5,000 tons delivered, with two cargo flights from Pakistan planned next week and water projects expanding from 6 plants to 100 initiatives.
- Security agencies reported multiple actions: eight militants were killed near Dera Ismail Khan, Hyderabad CTD arrested two alleged Fitnah al‑Hindustan operatives with funds and documents, and police said an attack on Bannu’s Bakakheil station was repelled without casualties.
- Police registered an FIR naming PML‑N MPA Chaudhry Naeem Ijaz and others in a Rawalpindi shooting that left one dead and two injured, and the Lahore High Court confirmed restoration of internet star Arshad Khan’s national identity card after NADRA verified his citizenship.