Overview
- - Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz directed an acceleration of urban and rural works, ordering a live monitoring dashboard, durable sewerage standards and April completion targets for key city projects.
- - Maryam Nawaz also met a Baloch student delegation and announced laptops and scholarships for students from Balochistan.
- - The federal cabinet’s captive-power levy has begun at 5% and will rise in stages to 20% by August 2026, with collections earmarked to deliver consumer tariff relief roughly every two months.
- - Punjab’s police chief Dr. Usman Anwar ordered strengthened security and readiness at riverine check posts, mandating repairs, equipment functionality and 15-day improvements with subsequent inspections and daily performance reports.
- - Separate developments include an anti-corruption case against two former SHOs in Sheikhupura, a suspected murder probe after a bound body was found in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Maymar, a Quetta rickshaw set ablaze over alleged extortion claims and fog-driven closures on M-3, M-4 and parts of M-5.