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♦ All set for ‘make or break’ by-polls on 20 Punjab Assembly seats tomorrow: PML-N and PTI’s popularity at stake: Army, FC, Rangers to keep an eye on miscreants: Over 52,000 cops to guard voting: Display of arms banned: All arrangements in place as polling material distributed among staff

♦ LHC admits PML-N's appeal against notification of five PTI MPAs

♦ Maryam gives message of love, peace to PTI’s youth for sake of Pakistan: Hints at more decrease in POL prices

♦ Imran claims PTI to clean sweep Punjab by-polls: Directs workers to guard every polling station on polling day till the results

♦ Coronavirus grows more lethal, kills 10 in Pakistan: NIH data shows almost all Covid indicators moving up: India records 20,044 fresh Covid cases, 56 deaths: Study says BA.5 Omicron subvariant four times more vaccine-resistant

♦ Islamabad, Rawalpindi brace for more rains: Many Sindh cities receive light showers

♦ Biden fist-bumps Saudi crown prince, then raises attacks on dissidents

♦ Steel-cutting ceremony of latest warship of Pakistan Navy held in Romania

♦ Pakistani bowlers bamboozle Sri Lankan top-order in first Test: Hosts score 109 for six wickets just after lunch: All-rounder Salman Ali Aghan makes Test debut for Pakistan

♦ Two men turn out to be ‘murderers’ of their two brothers in Karachi

♦ Spain-returned couple gunned down in Gujrat

♦ Wildfires blaze across sweltering southwest Europe

♦ 14 dead in military helicopter crash in Mexico