♦ Investment Facilitation Council to ward off red-tapism, bureaucratic snags, says COAS: General Asim Munir says SIFC consists of representatives from the military, bureaucracy, federal and provincial governments

♦ Petrol, diesel prices hiked by massive Rs20 per litre in ‘national interest’: Ishaq Dar cites international rates, IMF condition for increasing petrol prices: Says PM reluctantly nodded to new rates: Revised prices come into effect immediately

♦ Pakistan ready to talk to India as wars are no solution to issues, says PM: Shehbaz Sharif says Pakistan has mineral reserves worth $6 trillion

♦ Anti-terror op inside Afghanistan last resort if Kabul doesn't act: Bilawal

♦ Civilians’ military trial: SC to announce verdict on full court plea tomorrow: Aitzaz Ahsan, SCBA and PTI chairman’s lawyers oppose the formation of full court: AGP presents a list of 102 suspects in military's custody

♦ Imran Khan says witnesses’ statements in Toshakhana case recorded in his absence: PTI chief says giving details of gifts to ECP not obligatory: Contends gifts-related documents could not be presented as proof

♦ NA passes Pakistan Airports Authority Bill

♦ PTI-P elects Pervaiz Khattak as Chairman, Mehmood Khan as Vice Chairman

♦ PTI terminates basic membership of another 22 leaders incl Usman Buzdar

♦ Petition filled in Supreme Court to investigate Islamia University sex-drugs scandal

♦ Punjab CM updates PM Shehbaz on the maid torture issue

♦ Judge’s wife granted bail in maid torture case

♦ Coalition govt’s 15-month performance is better than PTI’s 4-year working, says info minister

♦ Dam near Rojhan breaches, several villages submerge

♦ Met office forecast more rains, flood alert issued in KPK

♦ Punjab CM Naqvi pays a visit to Lahore Camp jail; Orders to form a committee for prisoners to prove innocence

♦ LHC suspends Special Central Court’s order in Pervaiz Elahi’s case

♦ New route of electric bus inaugurates in Karachi: route to start from check post number 5, Information Minister Sindh Sharjeel Memon

♦ Water level increases in rivers due to heavy rains

♦ PPP not to award election tickets to ‘turncoats’

♦ NAB Rawalpindi announces holding Open Kachehri in office on Thursday

♦ Party time for kids over as schools reopen in Karachi

♦ Event organised in honour of students who visited NASA camp

♦ Rate of inflation climbed to 28.3% in the previous month

♦ Zhalay Sarhadi shows concerns at electricity tariffs hike

♦ Bajaur suicide blast toll rises to 55

♦ Big robbery in Faisalabad, Bandits snatch Rs22m in cash from showroom's cashier

♦ Two cops guarding polio team martyred in Quetta gun attack

♦ Six perish in bus-van collision in Rakhni

♦ Man who tried to rape girl arrested in Lahore

♦ 22 horses poisoned, seven dead in Kharian

♦ 17 workers crushed to death in India crane collapse

♦ Squash hero Hamza Khan returns back to Islamabad from Australia

♦ England wins final Ashes series against Australia