♦ 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
♦ Pulwama attack revelations ‘vindicate’ Pakistan: Foreign Office says Satya Pal Malik’s disclosures exposed Indian leadership’s plan to promote Hindutva
♦ PTI forms three-member committee for talks with JI
♦ 4 killed in firing between 2 groups over land dispute in Kashmore
♦ Fire breaks out in Multan yarn factory
♦ Police Emergency Response Unit app launched in Islamabad
♦ Two boys drown in Hub River
♦ 3 Pakistani cousins among 16 die in Dubai apartment block fire
♦ CM Naqvi pays tribute to martyred soldiers
♦ 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
♦ 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