Pakistan extends DST through end of October?

[Paul Goyette]

> I don't remember anyone posting about this recently, but one of
> my customers indicates that Pakistan has extended their observance
> of Daylight/Summer time through October 31st.  Current data has 
> DST expiring a few hours ago, at 0:00 this morning, local time.  I 
> don't have any official reference at which I can point to document
> the extension.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is official?  And if so, when might we
> see an update tzdata distribution?  

I found the following reference which seems to confirm my
customer's information:

http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/pakistan-extends-dst-2008.html