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♦ Foreigners safe after suicide-bomber targets their van in Karachi: Five Japanese nationals escape attack: Security guard martyred: One terrorist blew himself up while the other was shot dead in gunbattle with securitymen: Third terrorist managed to escape

♦ Iran shoots down several drones as Israel ‘launches’ attacks: Tehran activates air defence over several cities: Three explosions heard near army airbase in Isfahan: Nuclear facilities ‘completely secured’: US media reports these were Israeli airstrikes: IAEA says 'no damage to Iran’s nuclear sites'

♦ COAS, Saudi minister for bolstering cooperation in defence production, military training

♦ Iranian president to visit Pakistan 'as per schedule'

♦ New security plan chalked out for Chinese protection, Iran president's visit: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi warns of action against those failing to comply with SOPs for security of Chinese nationals: Decides to launch operation in Katcha with drones: Strongly condemns suicide attack in Karachi

♦ COAS, Saudi minister for bolstering cooperation in defence production, military training

♦ CM Maryam reviews progress on Nawaz Sharif IT City project

♦ Wants to meet Imran Khan but jail staff sent me back after a chit-chat: Zartaj Gul: PTI leader says checking roti at Tandoor is job of magistrate, not of CM: Maryam Nawaz is acting like a TikToker

♦ SC's Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, LHC's Justice Jawad Hassan leave for Doha conference

♦ Pakistan wants larger, extended loan programme with IMF: Aurangzeb: Says Islamabad to pitch bankable, investable projects to Saudi investors

♦ Smuggled items worth Rs10 billion seized in Mastung

♦ Dacoits shoot dead youth on resistance in Shikarpur

♦ University of Karachi teachers call for classes boycott over dues non-payment

♦ New rain spell likely to hit Punjab on Tuesday

♦ US veto sinks Palestinian UN membership bid in Security Council

♦ Israel assault has turned Gaza into 'humanitarian hellscape': UN

♦ CIA warns Ukraine could lose war this year without fresh aid

♦ Over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at New York's Columbia University

♦ Oil jumps more than 3% on Middle East worries

Sharp decline in sales of new cars

♦ Pakistan regrets US veto of Palestine state

♦ Woman gives birth to sextuplets in Rawalpindi

♦ 14-member Balochistan cabinet takes oath at last

♦ Court accepts requests of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi for private medical examination

♦ Solar panel rate sinks massively in Lahore

♦ Bank deposits set new record in Pakistan

♦ Govt rules out any dialogue with terrorist outfits

♦ Bilawal-led PPP walks out of NA session over PTI chairman's remarks against President Zardari

♦ Objection raised to MNA Sadaf Ehsan’s oath-taking

♦ Jamshed Dasti, Iqbal Khan’s NA membership suspended for disrupting president’s address