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♦ PM Shehbaz orders fast-paced completion of projects in Lahore: Visits sites to inspect work on different development projects: Orders legal action over delay in Lahore bridge project: Directs officials to give special incentives to workforce
♦ Police reap big successes in Katcha operation against criminals: Many dacoits on the retreat as police raze, torch and take control of dozens of their hideouts along riverbed in Punjab and Sindh 

♦ Former Indian Muslim MP, brother shot dead live on TV 
♦ Police arrest three in religious minister’s death case: Maulana Shakoor’s funeral prayers to be offered in Lakki Marwat today: Post mortem report says his death caused by severe head injury
♦ 3 Pakistani cousins among 16 die in Dubai apartment block fire
♦ CM Naqvi pays tribute to martyred soldiers
♦ 56 civilians killed in Sudan clashes: Paramilitaries say they are in control of presidential place
♦ Youth shot dead over old enmity in Gujranwala
♦ Muslim-Hindu love story ends in tragedy in Tharparkar
♦ China rocket launch sends debris into sea near Taiwan
♦ G7 pledges to quit fossil fuels faster, but no new deadline: Members commit to ending new plastic pollution by 2040
♦ Fight against fentanyl needs global plan, US envoy says
♦ Japan PM urges better security after blast targets speech
♦ South Korea fires warning shots after North boat incursion