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A kidnapping and torture case has been registered against Railway Police officials after KMC City Wardens Director Saim Imran alleged he was assaulted and unlawfully detained during a dispute over a Karachi road project. The confrontation also threatens to delay a Rs780 million link road intended to ease congestion around Natha Khan and Gulistan-i-Jauhar.
Five young men died after their car struck a divider and wall before catching fire on Multan’s Bosan Road. Rescue teams extinguished the blaze and transferred the bodies to Nishtar Hospital.
ISPR reported that Major Wajahat Waheed was killed in an IED attack during clearance operations in Gwadar. Four militants were killed separately in Kalat, where weapons and ammunition were recovered.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has started identifying unsafe school buildings through official reviews and reports submitted by citizens. The initiative follows a deadly Peshawar school roof collapse that killed at least 30 children and a teacher and injured more than 50 people.
Security forces killed eight suspected militants in separate intelligence-based operations in Quetta, Nushki and Khuzdar, according to the military. Officials reported recovering weapons, ammunition and about 490 kilograms of explosives while follow-up clearance operations continued.
Armed men abducted 20 police recruits after intercepting their passenger van on the Quetta-Karachi Highway in Mastung. Security forces have begun a search operation, while no group has claimed responsibility.
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near Khuzdar in Balochistan at 10:07am Pakistan Standard Time, with its epicentre reported 48 kilometres northwest of the district. No loss of life or property damage had been reported in the initial information.
Commander National Strategic Command General Syed Aamer Raza said any hostile miscalculation would receive a response beyond the initiator’s expectations. He made the remarks at the Pakistan Military Academy’s passing-out parade in Kakul.
Families mourned 34 children and a teacher killed in the Peshawar school roof collapse as authorities began an investigation and announced an audit of similar school buildings. Three injured children remained in critical condition, while the school owner was arrested.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has ordered inspections of private-school buildings after a roof collapse at a Peshawar school killed 34 children and a teacher. An official provincial notice also requires a wider safety review and building survey, but no public list of safe or unsafe schools has yet been released.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has ordered province-wide inspections of private-school buildings after a Peshawar school roof collapse killed 34 children and a teacher. District committees have three days to assess structural safety and identify buildings that need repairs or may be unsafe.
A school roof collapse in Peshawar’s Dir Colony killed 28 children and two teachers, while more than 50 people were injured. Rescue teams continued searching the debris as authorities detained the school owner and opened an inquiry into possible construction and safety failures.
