ISLAMABAD: The Federal Education Minister, Mr Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, today [June 1] directed the setting up of an implementation squad to oversee and inspect progress made in adopting new courses of studies, provision of new text books and teaching kits and aids and actual instructions being imparted in primary, middle and secondary schools throughout the country in accordance with the guidelines provided by the National Bureau of Curriculum and Planning. The squad, the Minister said, was being constituted in keeping with a recent Act of Parliament authorising the Federal Government to supervise standardization of curriculum and text books. Mr Pirzada ... exhorted the educational planners to lay greater stress on the actual implementation of the schemes... . — News agencies

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies from Hyderabad,] The case of Abdul Wali Khan and others, who are accused, inter alia, of having conspired to wage war against Pakistan, was taken up by the Special Court here today [June 1]. The Court was presided over by Mr Justice Aslam Riaz Hussain of the Lahore High Court, while its other members are Mr Justice Abdul Hakim Khan of the Peshawar High Court and Mr Justice Mushtaq Ali Kazi of the Sind-Baluchistan High Court.

Published in Dawn, June 2nd, 2026