PM Shehbaz forms 11-member committee to monitor KP affairs
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has formed an 11-member monitoring committee comprising federal ministers and political representatives to oversee governance, administrative affairs and the law and order situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has been appointed convener of the committee, according to sources.
The committee was established on Monday to monitor the provincial situation, including day-to-day government affairs, administrative matters, security and public concerns.
Besides Dar, the committee includes Rana Sanaullah, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, Amir Muqam, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.
Sources said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) would each have one representative on the committee. However, details of the remaining members of the 11-member panel were not immediately available.
The committee will review the province’s administrative affairs, security situation and public concerns and brief the federal leadership on developments.
Its formation comes as the federal government focuses on security and governance challenges in KP. The new forum is expected to facilitate coordination at the federal level and help monitor government measures in the province.
Ministry flags misleading social media claims
Separately, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has described several social media claims about unrest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as fabricated and misleading.
In a fact-check posted on X on Monday, the ministry said some social media accounts were using artificial intelligence-generated images, old footage and unrelated videos to create an impression of deteriorating security in the province.
According to the ministry, the material included videos of factory fires, protests against load-shedding and incidents in Syria that were allegedly being presented as events in KP through misleading headlines and captions.
The ministry said the content was intended to create an impression of unrest and chaos in the region.
It further claimed that Afghan and Indian social media accounts, alongside some political accounts, were promoting the narrative as part of what it described as an organised, foreign-backed propaganda campaign.