Overview

• President Asif Ali Zardari summoned Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to Karachi to manage tensions between the Punjab and Sindh governments.
• PPP lawmakers staged a Senate walkout and reiterated calls for Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz to apologize, citing demeaning rhetoric and concerns over flood relief discourse.
• Sindh’s cabinet approved a wheat release policy, authorizing 1.265 million metric tons to flour mills and chakkis at Rs9,500 per 100kg bag to stabilize flour prices.
• The Punjab government restored a jail trial for PTI founder Imran Khan in the May 9 GHQ attack case and issued a fresh notification, with a hearing expected at Adiala Jail.
• Police reported fresh violence and disruptions, including a Karachi SIU encounter that killed alleged extortionist Ehtishamuddin, shootings in Gilgit that wounded five, a fatal attack on security personnel in Bannu, and storm-driven outages and casualties in Karachi and Lahore.