Overview
- At a Surjani Town gathering, Governor Kamran Khan Tessori announced funds to tackle water, electricity and sewerage problems and said he would inaugurate the schemes himself.
- Under a new Governor Youth Program, 1,000 local youths will receive IT training at the Governor House, alongside plans to establish an IT market in the area.
- Tessori said Bengali residents legally entitled to citizenship in Karachi would be facilitated in obtaining national identity cards and passports.
- MQM leader Farooq Sattar credited a reported 40 billion rupee package for Karachi to MQM and the governor, presenting it as the party’s win.
- In Qalat, Balochistan, tribal leader Shakir Saadullah Lango and three others were shot dead in a targeted attack, with Levies launching an investigation, while an unrelated Sargodha crash led to the arrest of an MNA’s son after a 6-year-old was killed.