♦ Four dead, 16 hurt in Barkhan blast: Explosion rips through Rakhni Bazar: Bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked outside a barber shop: Security forces have cordoned off area
♦ President, PM, CMs of Balochistan and Punjab condemn blast: Prime minister seeks report from Balochistan chief minister and IG police, says terrorists cannot escape punishment: Bilawal says terrorists have no religion or nation, they are brutal beasts in human form: Zardari calls upon government to bring all criminals involved in this heinous act of terrorism to justice: Naqvi says Punjab govt shares the grief and sorrow of those who have lost their near and dear ones in this incident
♦ Rana Sanaullah says ‘Jail Bharo’ movement has become embarrassment for Imran: Claims masses will throw Imran out in the next elections through their votes
♦ Audio leak saga goes on: Usman Dar’s talk with counsel surfaces; Purported audio of conversation between PTI stalwart Usman Dar and Javed Ali’s counsel Tahir Sultan has surfaced in which Sultan could be heard telling Usman that he had met Javed in the jail who told him that he was not stripped naked
♦ Doctor confirms rape with 17-year-old daughter of Khan Muhammad Marri: Samples of Marri’s daughter, wife Giran Naz, and two sons were sent to Punjab forensic department for test
♦ PA of ex-chief of PM Youth Program claims giving Rs5m cut to his brother: PA confesses that he collected the amount from five contractors of four union councils of NA-67 and gave it to Usman Dar’s brother
♦ NA 193 Rajanpur By-Election: PTI's Leghari takes lead
♦ Sethi says PSL to continue in Lahore, Rawalpindi as per schedule; Sethi expresses gratitude to Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi for being “kind enough to agree to share cost of lighting routes during PSL matches in Lahore”.
♦ 4.2-magnitude earthquake jolts Malakand; Seismic Centre says epicentre of the earthquake was the Pak-Afghan-Tajikistan border region
♦ ‘Jail Bharo’ movement: PTI’s 70 workers surrender to police in Gujranwala; PTI’s Jail Bharo Movement has lost luster as most of the PTI leaders and workers avoid surrendering themselves to the police
♦ Federal Education Minister Rana Tanveer predicts Imran Khan cannot ever be PM; Imran Khan is a puppet said that the Jew lobby’s Agenda was seen being implemented in 2014 when dance protests were carried out
♦ Two-day Hyderabad Literature Festival begins
♦ Horse and Cattle Show cancelled due to security reasons
♦ Abhinandan’s payment of MIG 21 for Pakistani cup of tea completes four years
♦ Couple leaves wedding venue to join protest against inflation in Nawabshah
♦ PTI, PML-N workers clash during voting in NA-193, Jampur
♦ Lightning strikes in Abbottabad, child killed, 10 injured
♦ Stray kite string claims youth life in Sialkot; Deceased identified as Ghulam Hussain who was on his way on a bike when a kite string fell on him
♦ Pak universities delegation left for attending EURI in Istanbul; Under the auspices of the Association of Private Sector Universities Pakistan (APSUP), the delegation representing 20 universities and organisations would attend Eurasian Higher Education Summit (EURI)
♦ Narowal journalist falls prey to lady doctor’s negligence: He was operated on for gallstones at DHQ Hospital but the doctor cut the intestine too along with gallbladder
♦ Lahore tops list of most polluted cities of world as air quality index (AQI) in the city reached 235
♦ Woman raped in Jhelum at gunpoint: Medical report confirms the sexual assault
♦ Man shoots dead sister in Lahore over domestic row
♦ Pakistan to conduct first ever digital census: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has recruited 126,000 enumerators and purchased same number of tablets for this purpose
♦ Two hurt in chemical factory fire in Lahore
♦ Pakistan logs 36 new coronavirus cases
♦ Vaccinators’ shortage hits children vaccination campaign
♦ Around 40 migrants drown after boat wrecked off Italy
♦ UN says a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth every two minutes: A new report from World Health Organization (WHO) says maternal deaths have either increased or stagnated nearly everywhere, from 223 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020, down from 227 in 2015 and 339 in 2000
♦ Blinken eyes US inroads in Central Asia as Ukraine rattles nerves: Diplomats and experts say that Central Asian leaders are walking a tightrope due to formal security agreements with Moscow and Russia's overwhelming security and economic influence
♦ Macron to visit China after Beijing's Ukraine peace plan: He will urge Beijing to pressure Russia to end the war in Ukraine
♦ Gambia declares Pakistan-imported cough syrup substandard
♦ Lahore Qalandar set 242 runs target for Peshawar Zalmi
♦ Karachi Kings overcome Multan Sultans comfortably; Karachi Kings beat Multan Sultans by 66 runs
♦ Australia win Women's T20 World Cup for sixth time
♦ Duplantis sets new world pole vault record of 6.22 metres at an indoor meeting in France
♦ Actress Ushna Shah gets married to Hamza Amin