Overview

• The compensation plan offers Rs1 million for destroyed houses, Rs500,000 for partially damaged homes, Rs20,000 per acre for damaged farmland and Rs500,000 per lost large livestock.
• Officials say aid will be delivered through new provincial Relief Cards funded from Punjab’s own budget, with no payment start date announced.
• Provincial data reports more than 4.7 million people affected across 27 districts, about 2.6 million displaced and roughly 2.1 million livestock lost.
• PPP leaders Aseefa and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari urge using the Benazir Income Support Programme as the fastest channel, a proposal Punjab ministers reject as politicised.
• Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz approved student relief including a one‑semester tuition waiver, first‑year BS admission fee exemptions in nine districts and extended university and scholarship deadlines, alongside emergency road repairs.