♦ Gunships in action as terror attack on Bannu Cantt thwarted: Eight people injured as terrorists try to enter Cantonment by ramming car-bomb into its wall

♦ IMF loan accord lifts Pakistan Stock Exchange to new high: Index up by over 1,400 points

♦ PTI worker Sanam Javed handed over to Balochistan police

♦ Ailing Pervaiz Elahi again skips indictment in illegal appointments case

♦ Twin earthquakes jolt Zhob district

♦ LHC CJ sends recommendation to form larger bench on phone tapping plea to CJ

♦ Six die, five wounded in Jamshoro truck-trailer collision

♦ TLP sit-in at Faizabad continues for third day, alternate traffic routes announced

♦ Fire breaks out at Karachi University’s Mass Com Department

♦ Hamas says pulling out of Gaza truce talks, as Israel keeps up strikes: Gaza civil defence says 15 killed in Israel strike on Gaza school

♦ Biden tells Americans to 'cool it down' after Trump assassination bid: I'm supposed to be dead, Trump tells NYP after assassination bid: Bullet that whizzed past Donald Trump caught on camera: Who was Trump attacker?

♦ Mohsin Naqvi chairs PCB meeting which rules out cut in central contract funds