♦ 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: Says previous PTI govt took revenge on people of Punjab for supporting PML-N by stalling all development projects in province; Rues Punjab CM office was used by previous regime for political manoeuvrings
♦ Unhappy PM orders crackdown against sugar mafia
♦ Pulwama attack revelations ‘vindicate’ Pakistan: Foreign Office says Satya Pal Malik’s disclosures exposed Indian leadership’s plan to promote Hindutva
♦ UK rejects Indian request not to grant political asylum to Sikhs
♦ CM directs to issue NOCs of all new petrol pumps in Punjab till May 1
♦ Unknown persons open fire on PTI candidate Majid Satti, snatch car
♦ PTI forms three-member committee for talks with JI
♦ Baisakhi Mela: 2920 Sikh Yatree from India reach Kartarpur
♦ Former Indian Muslim MP, brother shot dead live on TV
♦ Mufti Abdul Shakoor buried in Lakki Marwat; Police arrest three in religious minister’s death case
♦ Police Emergency Response Unit app launched in Islamabad
♦ Teaching "work dodgers" exposed
♦ Muslim-Hindu love story ends in tragedy in Tharparkar
♦ Noor Mukadam case: Killer challenges his death sentence in SC
♦ 4 killed in firing between 2 groups over land dispute in Kashmore
♦ Fire breaks out in Multan yarn factory
♦ Two boys drown in Hub River
♦ 3 Pakistani cousins among 16 die in Dubai apartment block fire
♦ CM Naqvi pays tribute to martyred soldiers
♦ 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
♦ Fight against fentanyl needs global plan, US envoy says
♦ Four dead in Alabama teen birthday party shooting
♦ IS attack on Syria truffle hunters kills at least 26
♦ Soldier killed as separatists ambush military in Indonesia's Papua
♦ 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
♦ 56 civilians killed in Sudan clashes: Paramilitaries say they are in control of presidential place
♦ Japan PM urges better security after blast targets speech
♦ South Korea fires warning shots after North boat incursion
♦ Suspected jihadists kill 40 in Burkina Faso: governor
♦ Iran seals 150 businesses in headscarf crackdown
♦ UN food agency suspends work in Sudan after staff killed
♦ Veiled man unmasked in Kenyan women's chess tournament
♦ Charleroi fans pelt Liege supporters with painted dead rats
♦ Zimbabwe's Vincent wins International Series Vietnam
♦ Tendulkar Jnr makes IPL debut