Security
Miranshah: Curfew has been imposed in North Waziristan tribal district from Shna Khawra to Khar Kamar area due to which the local people are facing difficulties. The curfew has been imposed to carryout search operation against miscreants in the area who have recently launched several attacks on the security forces in which deaths and injuries happened. TNN
Jalalabad: A suicide bomber targeted a police checkpoint in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing at least 11 people and wounding 13 others said. The Afghan arm of the IS group claimed responsibility for the attack. Dawn, Tribune, The News
Toba Tek Singh: A team of Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested two suspected terrorists near the residential compound of Chinese engineers and recovered huge quantity of explosives, weapons from their possession. The News
Socioeconomic
Peshawar: Yet another polio case has surfaced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) raising the total number of cases in the country to 23 out of which 17 cases have been reported from KP. TNN, Tribune
Peshawar: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to release Rs 220 million for the war affected people of tribal districts of Kurram, Orakzai and Frontier Region (FR) Tank. TNN
Peshawar: The PHCBA president, Abdul Latif Afridi has approached Anti-Terrorism Court Bannu, seeking bail for Members National Assembly – Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar. TNN
Washington: The United States wants Pakistan to continue supporting the Afghan peace process but also expects Islamabad to end its allegedly “unacceptable support” to militants, say two key US officials, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Assistant Secretary Alice G. Wells. Dawn
