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♦ Stage set for local body elections in Karachi and Hyderabad tomorrow; the second phase of local elections will be held as per the schedule; Tight security arrangements; sensitive, Highly Sensitive Polling Stations PFC deployed

♦ MQM decides to contest LG elections; emergency meeting of the MQM Coordination Committee continues; Mutahidda leaders will hold a press conference soon 

 ♦ Bilawal says Jiyala will be the mayor of Hyderabad; We want the mayor of Karachi from PPP, urged people to come out and exercise their right to vote; Elections were delayed due to floods, corona; Karachi can develop only through LG elections

♦ Arrangements for the second phase of elections in Sindh are complete; Educational institutions made polling stations; a central control room established

♦ Lahore became the centre of national politics; Shehbaz Sharif and Imran Khan present in Lahore; Asif Zardari at Bilawal House; ex-president eying changing political situation; Asif Zardari and PM meeting likely

♦ Mahmood Khan follows  in the footsteps of Parvez;  says a two-thirds majority will come next time 

♦ Prime Minister also has to take a vote of confidence; Imran Khan plays a new trick;  Shehbaz Sharif will be asked to take a vote of confidence; PTI pins hopes on MQM; It is enough for Imran Khan to come to the streets again after 3 weeks

♦ Lockdown of Punjab Assembly, PML-N leadership in action; Nawaz Sharif calls Rana Sana for political consultation; 

♦ ECP foils Parvez Elahi's bid to make Imran Khan’s hometown a division; 

Punjab Cabinet approves giving the status of a division; 

♦ Bangladesh has gone far ahead, say PM Shehabaz; If the country was in the right direction, there would be no need for loans; Saudi Arabia gave a gift of 10 billion dollars of investment; UAE leadership assured full cooperation

♦ US Defense Minister telephones Army Chief; Discussion on issues of mutual interest and situation in the region; 

♦ Terrorist attack on police in Peshawar; DSP Sardar Hussain and two gunmen martyred; Martyrs’ funeral will be held in police lines

♦ Property dispute in Lodhran claimed 5 lives; 

♦ Lahore bar elections became controversial; Polls  put off till January 23, Babar Waheed Acting President

♦ Firing in Awan Adal, the area echoed with the sound of gunshots

♦ Cold wave persists across the country; Respite in snowfall in Murree; 

Tourists were trapped due to the closure of the Neelam highway; After four days, a lull in snowfall; 

♦ Execution of Iran's former deputy defence minister; Sentenced to death for spying for Britain

♦ Trump's company fined $1.6 for fraud;  Democrats made a case against me, says Donald Trump

♦ Time is short, competition is tough; Rizwan played a match yesterday in Karachi, today in Chittagong; reaches Chittagong by helicopter from Dhaka