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♦ Govt to levy 10% super tax on big industries: PM Shehbaz: Big businesses include automobile, cigarette, cement, steel, sugar, LNG terminal, textile, fertilizers, banking, chemical and beverages: Hopes Pakistan will avert default: Says if IMF imposes no other condition, agreement with Fund to be finalized: Confesses people have to face difficulties due to tough economic decisions for short-term: Tax worth Rs2,000 billion stolen every year

♦ Threat of default over; country on track to progress now: Miftah: Finance minister says rich in the country taxed to reduce budget deficit: My firm, and companies of PM and his sons will also pay high taxes

♦ Court grants interim bail to Imran Khan till July 6

♦ SHC rejects MQM, JI challenges to LB elections: Orders holding of local bodies polls in Sindh on June 26

♦ Eviction notice: IHC asks PTI MNAs to take matter to NA speaker

♦ All indicators up as daily coronavirus cases soar past 300 in Pakistan: NIH data shows positivity ratio builds to 2.22%, active cases tally at 3,797: Study says Covid vaccines saved 20 million lives in first year: EU watchdog approves Valneva anti-Covid jab

♦ US dollar flexes its muscles again, pounds Pakistani rupee hard

♦ PML-N MPA faints during Punjab Assembly session

♦ Man, son among three die after falling in Khushab gutter

♦ Gas supply suspended to CNG stations for three days in Karachi

♦ Police action sought against hike in Niswar price

♦ US Senate advances breakthrough bill on gun safety: Supreme Court says Americans have right to carry guns in public

♦ 84th birth anniversary of actor Sultan Rahi celebrated