♦ National Assembly limits disqualification period to five years: Bill paves way for Nawaz Sharif, Jahangir Tareen to contest elections
♦ National Assembly approves amended budget to clinch IMF deal: Rs215bn new taxes to be imposed: PDL to be raised to Rs60/L: No multiple pensions for an individual: Assembly opposes sending Finance Bill to IIC
♦ Govt’s economic team briefs IMF about further steps for staff-level agreement: Holds virtual talks with Fund: Informs it about tax measures and changes in budgetary framework
♦ KP govt gears up to deal with monsoon
♦ Four die from heatwave in Islamabad in three days: Rain forecast for Punjab, KP
♦ Religious scholars visit Jinnah House building
♦ Eight die, 50 hurt in fatal smash between two buses in Nawabshah
♦ FIA arrests most wanted human trafficker from Faisalabad
♦ New rain-spell enters country
♦ Ex-PTI MNA from Khushab quits party, politics: PTI ticket holder from Lahore bids adieu to party
♦ Two little girls set ablaze in Lahore
♦ Pak Army helps start coal mining in Kurram after 16 years
♦ Punjab CM leaves for Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj
♦ Bus passengers robbed of valuables in Tangwani
♦ Mother of two tortured to death by in-laws in Muridke
♦ Afghan supreme leader says women 'saved from oppression' by Taliban
♦ India's claim of cordial relations with the interim Afghan government proves false
♦ Wagner chief to leave Russia in deal to ease crisis: Prigozhin will go to Belarus, will not face charges after calling off his troops' advance on Moscow
♦ US, allies consult but tread carefully as Russia crisis unfolds: Ukraine presidency says Prigozhin 'humiliated Putin' with his aborted mutiny
♦ Canada opens investigation of Titanic sub implosion
♦ UK says fighter jets in Baltics scrambled 21 times over Russian aircraft
♦ Former number one tennis player Maria Sakkari defeats by inexperience player of Croatia during semi-final of women tennis German openings
♦ Paris fashion show continues
♦ Michael Jackson 14 death anniversary being observed today