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♦  Dar's financial discipline enforced; grade 17 officials and above will get one pension; Retired employees have to draw pension or salary on any employment; A cut of 85 billion rupees on government expenditure; 100 billion increase in Benazir Income Support Programme; Funds for the utility store also increased

♦  215 billion new taxes before the IMF deal; Poor will not be taxed, says Ishaq Dar; 6% supertax on companies earning from 35 to 40 crores rupees; There will be 8% super tax on annual earnings ranging from 40 to 50 crores; We have fulfilled all conditions

♦ Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s efforts bear fruit; Pakistan and IMF close to the final agreement; The people of Pakistan have the right to get relief, PM told IMF MD in France meetings

♦ outcome of US-Indian alliance; Indian army fires shots at shepherds; Two civilians embrace martyrdom; another sustains injuries, says ISPR

♦ Miftah Ismail quits PML-N; Miftah Ismail resigned from all positions of the party

♦ Parvez Elahi gets bail in money laundering case; another arrest likely

♦  Nawaz Sharif acquitted in plot case for lack of evidence

♦  Nawaz Sharif reaches Dubai from London; Maryam Nawaz is also present there with her family; Maryam Nawaz will meet him and discuss Nawaz Sharif's return and general elections;

♦ In Punjab, it was decided to allocate health cards only to the poor; From June 30, Gynecology operations in private hospitals are closed; Heart patients will have to pay 33 per cent; 300 rupees per month will be deducted from the salary of government employees; 4700 will be given annually to those with income more than 65 thousand

♦ Death of ‘party girl’ in Karachi; evidence mounts; no arrest made

♦ Country in the grip of a heatwave; electricity outages add to public problems; Water scarcity too reported; people take to the streets against load-shedding in Peshawar.

♦ New rain system enters; Clouds hovering over Islamabad and Pindi; Rain in Punjab, KP till June 30; Fear of urban flooding in Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Gujranwala; Landslides may occur in higher areas,

♦ Wagner, a Russian private military company stages a coup; Wagner betrayed, stabbed in the back, says the Russian president; Those who participated in the coup will be punished

♦ Legend Sultan Rahi remembered