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Over 650 reforms carried out last year: report​

Dawn Report
Published February 10, 2026

ISLAMABAD: The government carried out more than 650 governance reforms, across 135 federal ministries, divisions and affiliated institutions during the previous year, according to a new report.

The Pakistan Reforms Report 2026, unveiled in the capital on Monday, showed that the country’s focus had shifted from crisis stabilisation to long-term state capacity, with the energy sector leading the tally with 118 reforms enacted, followed by the legal sector with 96, and digital governance and IT in third place with 74 initiatives.

According to a statement from Mishal Pakistan — the organisation behind the report — it aims to document changes in governance to help stakeholders understand how systems are changing, how reforms are being institutionalised, and how these changes may shape citizens’ lives and state capacity over time.

The authors make it clear that this is not a performance evaluation or political scorecard, rather, the report situates reforms within the challenging context of 2025, marked by fiscal pressures, regional security dynamics, internal insurgencies, and geopolitical tensions.

Despite these constraints, reform momentum remained intact, particularly in digitisation, institutional coordination, and regulatory modernisation, the statement said.

Of the nearly 660 reform measures highlighted, the report points to 160-190 measures directly created or improved public-facing access, including portals, complaint systems, mobile applications and digital certificates.

“Citizens experience governance not through policy documents, but through electricity bills, court delays, visa processing times, digital portals, grievance redress mechanisms, and the predictability of rules that affect their livelihoods,” it notes.

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Pakistan Reforms Report 2025

 

[SoulSpokesman]

Great work by the PMLN govt

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[RealNapster]

Over 650 reforms carried out last year: report​

Dawn Report
Published February 10, 2026

ISLAMABAD: The government carried out more than 650 governance reforms, across 135 federal ministries, divisions and affiliated institutions during the previous year, according to a new report.

The Pakistan Reforms Report 2026, unveiled in the capital on Monday, showed that the country’s focus had shifted from crisis stabilisation to long-term state capacity, with the energy sector leading the tally with 118 reforms enacted, followed by the legal sector with 96, and digital governance and IT in third place with 74 initiatives.

According to a statement from Mishal Pakistan — the organisation behind the report — it aims to document changes in governance to help stakeholders understand how systems are changing, how reforms are being institutionalised, and how these changes may shape citizens’ lives and state capacity over time.

The authors make it clear that this is not a performance evaluation or political scorecard, rather, the report situates reforms within the challenging context of 2025, marked by fiscal pressures, regional security dynamics, internal insurgencies, and geopolitical tensions.

Despite these constraints, reform momentum remained intact, particularly in digitisation, institutional coordination, and regulatory modernisation, the statement said.

Of the nearly 660 reform measures highlighted, the report points to 160-190 measures directly created or improved public-facing access, including portals, complaint systems, mobile applications and digital certificates.

“Citizens experience governance not through policy documents, but through electricity bills, court delays, visa processing times, digital portals, grievance redress mechanisms, and the predictability of rules that affect their livelihoods,” it notes.

Now. Can we link that to performance of these institutes in comparison to previous years ?

 

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Now. Can we link that to performance of these institutes in comparison to previous years ?

Initial reforms will last 5 years. This is year 2 of that plan.

If the next Government whichever it is continues with the current reforms instead of throwing them out of window and coming up with newer version of reforms, then we'll be back to square like Pakistan had been until 2022, otherwise we will continue to see steady growth like China saw for 30 years before it marched ahead of everybody.

 

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Pakistan roof collapse kills 14 children at tutoring centre

Local officials said preliminary reports showed the centre was unregistered and operating inside a privately owned residential building

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Pakistan roof collapse kills 14 children at tutoring centre​

Local officials said preliminary reports showed the centre was unregistered and operating inside a privately owned residential building

Guardian staff and agencies
Tue 30 Jun 2026 19.34 EDT
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Fourteen children died after ⁠the roof of a tutoring centre collapsed in Pakistan’s eastern city of ⁠Lahore on Tuesday, ⁠rescue officials have said, as authorities opened the way for a possible negligence ⁠investigation.

Punjab’s emergency service said rescuers found children and a 30-year-old female teacher ⁠under the rubble of the private after-school facility. The children killed were aged ‌five to ‌16 with most below nine.


Punjab information minister ‌Azma Bokhari said preliminary reports showed the tutoring centre was unregistered and operating inside a privately owned residential building under a dilapidated roof. Such centres are common across Pakistan, where ‌children attend extra lessons outside regular school hours.

“If negligence, carelessness or any violation of the law is established, those responsible will face strict legal action,” Bokhari said in a statement.

Workers had been repairing tiles on the building when the roof gave way, a witness told the AFP news agency.

Broadcaster Geo News aired images of uniformed rescuers and civilians using spades and their hands to dig through dirt and rubble in the partially collapsed building.