A national round table on Mental Health Legislative reforms was held on 25th March 2026 in Islamabad. The objective was to engage key federal and provincial stakeholders and initiate a process of reviewing the existing mental health legislations, reflect on the challenges for implementation, and develop a consensus on next actionable steps for making these laws meaningful in practice.

Newsletter 42 presents supervision data from 107 child and adolescent cases (under 18 years) reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. It highlights that most cases are girls in late adolescence, with depression and stress conditions being the most common diagnoses, driven largely by family and education-related stressors.

Under the Memorandum of Understanding on the Knowledge Sharing Program with the Government of Türkiye, the Health Section of the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives organized a webinar on 23–24 February 2026 to facilitate the exchange of health sector experiences and strengthen bilateral cooperation between Pakistan and Türkiye.