Overview
- Pakistan’s meteorological office forecast continued drizzle, light rain and snowfall in multiple regions with further drops in temperature.
- Karachi recorded its first winter shower overnight, intensifying the cold and causing localized power outages after some feeders tripped.
- Karachi Bar Association announced a strike and boycott of city courts after FIRs against lawyers over an assault case, vowing to bar police from City Court and staging protests that disrupted traffic.
- The planned Islamabad–Tehran–Istanbul freight service was postponed, with DS Railways citing the lack of security clearance for the launch.
- Security and public-order updates included a CTD arrest of a banned-group operative in Sahiwal, police foiling a child abduction in Lahore, the arrest of a husband in a Sheikhupura murder case, Islamabad’s year-end enforcement report, and Karachi’s relaunch of double-decker buses from Malir to Shahrah-e-Faisal with Rs80–120 fares.