♦ Deadlock persists as Punjab Assembly’s budget session faces another delay: Pervaiz Elahi insists on apologies from chief secretary, IGP: Govt refuses to budge
♦ Real reasons behind Perviaz Elahi’s action against CS and IGP surface: He threatened to get them removed from service if they failed to lodge cases against PTI rebel MPAs
♦ Sindh Cabinet approves over Rs1,700 billion budget: CM Murad Ali Shah to unveil budget in Assembly
♦ US dollar storms to record Rs205 against spineless Pakistani rupee: Being traded at Rs204.75 after gaining 89 paisas in value
♦ Loadshedding persists as electricity shortfall reaches 6,709
♦ CJP asks how beneficiaries can amend ECL rules. FIA submits its report in Supreme Court
♦ PTI requests ECP to defer verdict in foreign funding case
♦ Ahsan says Imran, PTI will be disqualified after ECP verdict
♦ Federal Cabinet reviews steps about how to rein in inflation
♦ FM Bilawal reaches Tehran on maiden trip
♦ So-called system of accountability taking last breaths, says Khaqan Abbasi
♦ One dead as eve-teasing triggers armed clash in Muzaffargarh
♦ Two engineers, two coal miners abducted in Quetta
♦ Inter physics, chemistry papers out before time in Sindh
♦ US Ambassador Blome rings starting bell at Pakistan Stock Exchange