Overview

• Punjab’s finance minister said flood losses will be redressed within a month using ATM-card cash grants of Rs10 lakh for destroyed homes and Rs5 lakh for partial damage.
• Officials report 28 districts hit and an unusually long 15–20-day “super flood,” with PDMA, Irrigation, Rescue 1122 and the Armed Forces running relief and repairs, while an opposition leader pegs losses above Rs88 billion.
• Authorities highlight tent cities, food, clean bedding, medical care and even livestock rescue as part of the organized relief phase now giving way to rehabilitation.
• Islamabad Police say 175 suspects, including 63 members of 14 organized gangs, have been arrested with jewelry, high-value watches, 12 motorcycles and weapons recovered.
• The Islamabad High Court has listed for hearing a petition alleging abduction-for-ransom that names former PIA chairman Musharraf Rasul and senior police officials, as political and religious leaders separately hail the new Pakistan–Saudi defense agreement.