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♦ ECP rules LG polls in Karachi and Hyderabad will be held on Jan 15: Announces reserved verdict: Rejects MQM request challenging the voters’ lists

Crucial Punjab Assembly session will start today: CM Pervaiz Elahi is due to take vote of confidence

♦ Pakistan, Saudi Arabia agree to bolster defence cooperation: Army Chief General Asim Munir holds talks with Saudi Crown Prince in his royal tent: Both leaders also resolve to cement bilateral ties

♦ Pakistan seeks billions for flood recovery, climate resilience: PM Shehbaz, FM Bilawal in Geneva for climate moot: French President Macron, Turkish President Erdogan, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen will address conference in Geneva

♦ Spiders knit their webs in Dadu to shield flood affectees from onslaught of mosquitoes

♦ ECP disposes of plea against Ishaq Dar’s Senate seat

♦ Court hears actress Kubra Khan’s case against baseless allegations

♦ Snowfall leaves roads blocked, tourists stranded in AJK, KP: 12 PU students stranded in Kel Siri rescued: Link roads blocked, tourist places closed due to snowfall in Neelum Valley: Rawalakot and Lower Dir also receive heavy snowfall

♦ Fog blankets plains of country; disrupts flight, train operations

♦ Brazil ex-president's supporters storm Congress, Supreme Court: Bolsonaro backers who refuse to accept leftist Lula's election victory broke through: Police wrest back seat of power from pro-Bolsonaro rioters: Security chief sacked

♦ Pakistan and New Zealand to clash in first one-dayer in Karachi today

♦ 27th death anniversary of legendary actor Sultan Rahi observed