September 1, 2026
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has ordered dedicated motorcycle lanes on major Lahore roads, camera-monitored zebra crossings and pedestrian alert buttons, after the death of a girl run over by a Suthra Punjab vehicle.
August 27, 2026
The Punjab chief minister has ordered a fresh audit of fire safety, emergency exits and firefighting equipment at all public health facilities within 24 hours, with rectification work to be completed in a week.
August 23, 2026
A woman was found dead at her home in Rawalpindi's Lalkurti area with her hands bound, according to the FIR. Police have arrested two men including her husband. Actors Mahira Khan and Iffat Omar are among those demanding action on violence against women.
August 19, 2026
Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has announced Basant will be held in Lahore from March 12 to 14, 2027, following what she called a successful return last year, and invited overseas Pakistanis to attend.
July 30, 2026
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said his party will reclaim its Azad Kashmir seats through legal means, while calling the prime minister and Punjab chief minister "products of Form-47". Maryam Nawaz has rejected the rigging allegations as ironic coming from the PPP.
July 30, 2026
Nine people were killed and three injured when the roof of a house collapsed in Lahore, with rescue teams still clearing debris. Two children died in a separate roof collapse in Faisalabad during rainfall, weeks after 14 children were killed when a tutoring centre roof came down in the city.
July 29, 2026
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has told the PPP to accept its defeat in the first phase of the AJK election "with an open heart", rejecting allegations of rigging. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had earlier questioned whether the situation in Azad Kashmir could be called democracy.
July 23, 2026
PML-N President Nawaz Sharif formally launched his party's Azad Jammu and Kashmir election campaign in Muzaffarabad on July 22–23, pledging a Muzaffarabad motorway, ten electric air-conditioned buses from Punjab and fifteen "Hospitals on Wheels" across AJK if PML-N wins the July 27 first phase. Nawaz declared "AJK is as dear to me as Punjab." With four days remaining until Phase 1 in Mirpur division, both PML-N and PPP are concentrating heavy campaign resources in the south while positioning for the August 2 Muzaffarabad phase.
July 22, 2026
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addressed a major public meeting at Quaid-e-Azam International Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on July 22, as PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif quipped at a campaign event that he would ask PM Shehbaz to appoint him AJK prime minister if PML-N wins the polls. With Phase 1 of the newly-revised three-phase election now five days away and limited to Mirpur division, the major parties are concentrating their final campaign firepower on the south. Nawaz and Maryam Nawaz are expected in Muzaffarabad for pre-Phase 2 rallies later this week.
July 21, 2026
The July 27 AJK general elections are six days away with PML-N and PPP conducting their most intensive campaign activity of the cycle. Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz are expected in Muzaffarabad and Mirpur for major rallies in the next 48–72 hours, coinciding with Bilawal's Nakial meeting today and Muzaffarabad rally on July 24. The campaign runs simultaneously against the JAAC deadline, which expires today. If the march resumes tomorrow, national party leaders and JAAC marchers will converge on Muzaffarabad in the same week.
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