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♦ Mohsin Naqvi reaches CM Office without any official protocol: Holds meetings with staff officers

♦ PM Shehbaz felicitates Mohsin Naqvi on becoming caretaker Punjab CM. He extended good wishes to Mohsin Naqvi and said that the election commission decided to appoint the caretaker chief minister as per the Constitution and law. Suleman Shehbaz also welcomes Mohsin Naqvi's appointment
♦ Khawaja Asif rejects PTI’s criticism over Punjab caretaker CM appointment: Says PTI has no constitutional justification to raise objection as Mohsin Naqvi's appointment was made as per law: Imran Khan is a failed project and is gradually losing ground: Believes PTI MNAs and its workers are paying price of their chief’s wrong decisions
♦ Federal Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb while congratulating newly-appointed Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi has maintained that now there would be “elections and not selection”. The minister said PTI Chairman Imran Khan who is a “foreign agent” and who had invested $30 million of cancer hospital donations in business, is at pain because the appointment of Punjab Caretaker CM was in accordance with the law and Constitution, and was not done through “witchcraft”
♦ PTI decides to withdraw resignations of its remaining 44 MNAs: Sends email to Speaker Raja Pervaiz informing him about its decision
♦ FM Bilawal to attend 26th ECO meeting today
♦ Massive electricity breakdown across Pakistan: Major cities including Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Quetta are without power: Tarbela, Mangla transmission lines tripped: NTDC launches efforts for power
♦ Ishaq Dar off to Qatar with ‘offer to sell two LNG power plants’
♦ Second shipment of Russian wheat to reach Karachi tomorrow
♦ Govt forms JIT to probe Imran Khan attack
♦ Poverty drives Lahori man to attempt suicide along with 3 kids: One daughter dies in hospital
♦ Turkey's Erdogan announces elections for May 14