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♦ ECP expresses indignation over absence of PTI leaders in contempt case: ECP Bench remarks: With the help of this institution, you reach the Prime Minister’s House, but you do not appear before it; respect for the law is the duty of everyone; you give no importance to the ECP

♦ PTI leaders submit responses in NAB in funds return from UK case

♦ PTI’s Shahbaz Gill resents police’s failure to arrest Rana Sana: Court order police to return Gill’s equipment today

♦ Pakistani currency snatches another rupee-plus gain from US dollar: Surges by another Rs1.17: Greenback has lost nearly 23 rupees during last 12 trading sessions

♦ Three kids die of malaria, snakebite in flood-hit Sindh

♦ Malala, parents land in Pakistan to visit flood-hit Sindh

♦ PHC rules appointment of acting Gomal University VC illegal: Also suspends all orders of the acting VC: Orders appointment of new VC as per law

♦ Court orders Sindh govt to provide security to Tiktoker Hareem Shah

♦ Swat protesters throng streets all night, demand arrest of killers: Talks of govt negotiating team with protesters fail to bear fruit

♦ Another 455 dengue patients reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

♦ PM assails Modi govt after Kashmiri leader’s death in Indian custody: Decries BJP regime for denying Altaf Ahmad treatment despite knowing he was cancer patient: Says custodial killings are norm in Modi's India

♦ Foreign Office rejects Indian PM Modi’s statement about Kashmir as misleading

♦ New Zealand crush Pakistan by nine wickets in tri-series match: Babar XI manage to post meagre 131-run target for hosts to win the match