♦ Khawaja Asif says general elections can be delayed by two months: Says Election Commission has power to defer polling on technical grounds

♦ Involvement of Afghans in terrorist incidents detrimental to regional peace: COAS

♦ Imran Khan’s sentence to be suspended in a week, PTI lawyer tells court: ATC reserves verdict on PTI chief’s court exemption plea in terror case: Another PTI lawyer requests court to issue PTI chairman’s protection order

 ♦ PTI submits supplementary reply to ECP in connection with the intra-party elections case

♦ Pakistani rupee sheds more value against US dollar in interbank

♦ PM Shehbaz issues health cards for artists and media workers

♦ Court extends interim bail of Qureshi, Asad Umar in May 9 cases

♦ PTI ticketholder from Narowal, others join IPP

♦ PML-N’s Rafaqat Ali Dogar appointed as deputy attorney general

♦ New video showing tortured Rizwana limping across road falsifies claims of judge’s wife

♦ Decision to send Pakistan’s cricket team to India not taken in haste: FO: Spokesperson Mumtaz Baloch says team being dispatched after PM’s approval

♦ Death toll reaches 36 in Hazara Express train incident

♦ Funeral prayers of Ranger personnel martyred amid firing in Karachi Lyari offered in his native town

♦ PCB restores Sarfaraz Nawaz’s pension