Overview

• Sindh reported nine polio cases and the chief minister suspended the Badin and Keamari DHOs, issued show-cause notices to the DCs of Badin and Thatta, and removed the assistant commissioners of Matli and Mirpur Sakro.
• Provincial authorities ordered immediate OPV/IPV booster drives, house-to-house searches for missed children, and two large campaigns in the last quarter of 2025, citing 81% positive environmental samples and persistent detection at all 12 Karachi sites.
• Justice Ali Zia Bajwa of the Lahore High Court directed the PTA to submit nationwide data on unregistered SIMs by Oct. 6, warned the PTA chairman may be summoned, and called in the DG of the cybercrime agency and senior PTA officers.
• The National Assembly passed a resolution condemning Imran Khan over alleged mistreatment of a journalist, and the Parliamentary Reporters Association staged a walkout as the speaker asked the law minister to engage with the reporters.
• Security and local updates included a joint police–community operation in Laki Marwat that killed one militant, Karachi police probing a suspected murder-suicide in Qayyumabad, a Sargodha FIR against an alleged fake healer now at large, and 3.2-magnitude tremors felt in Malir with no damage reported.