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♦ PM Shehbaz will leave for Saudi Arabia today

♦ President Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto to visit Quetta today

♦ Pakistan wins $102m World Bank loan for microfinance expansion: Bank says loan will be disbursed through ministry of finance and State Bank

♦ Local residents thwart militants’ four terror attacks in KP cities: Failed abduction of soldier in Tirah valley: Worshippers foil terror attack on mosque in Lakki Marwat: Karak residents join forces to push back terrorists: People in Bannu force terrorists to flee who targeted Khojri Police Checkpost

♦ PTI MPA Ali Shah freed; granted bail in November 26 protest cases

♦ Govt announces Eidul Fitr holidays

♦ Six more punished for ‘illegal activities’ in Sukkur

♦ SHC reinstates disabled teacher on his job

♦ Passengers suffer as SereneAir flight stuck in Jeddah for 4th consecutive day

♦ Policeman shot dead in Nowshera

♦ Rejected lover shoots dead girl in Sahiwal

♦ Speeding truck crushes little boy to death in Lahore

♦ Wife, brother-in-law, servant arrested for murder of Khairpur lawyer

♦ UAE announces Eid holidays for private sector employees

♦ Ukraine ceasefire talks planned in Jeddah on Sunday: US: In 90-minute phone call with Trump, Putin agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine energy grid

♦ Yemen’s Huthis claim fourth attack against US warships

♦ Trump purges Democrats from US Federal Trade Commission

♦ Netanyahu says Gaza strikes 'only the beginning'

♦ Judge orders halt to Musk shutdown of USAID