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♦ CJP Bandial chides cabinet for amending ECL rules: Seeks list of ministers whose names excluded from ECL: Justice Mazahir wonders is it not clash of interests that cabinet members were on ECL and they amended the rules: SC shows uneasiness over safety of FIA record, summons FIA DG

♦ Govt drops petrol bomb on masses by increasing PoL prices by massive Rs30 per litre: Petrol price shoots up to Rs180 per litre, diesel’s Rs174 per litre: Transporters raise fares by 20%

♦ Raise in rates of petroleum products challenged in LHC

Rs3.75 rise in electricity tariff likely in four months

♦ PM Shehbaz to announce relief package to offset petrol price hike: Miftah Ismail tries to calm nerves of jittery people over increase in POL price: Says measure will stabilise rupee and consequently petrol prices will come down

♦ Price of 20kg flour bag hikes by Rs180

♦ Govt reduces price of 50kg fertilizer bag by Rs389: Fixes the rate at Rs1,768; notification issued

♦ Pakistani rupee deals heavy blow to US dollar: Greenback is now being traded below Rs200 mark

♦ PM, Opposition leader launch consultation for new NAB chief

NAB, Election Act amendment bills sail through Senate amid noisy protests: Law minister says voting right of overseas Pakistanis not withdrawn

♦ Case registered against PTI leaders: Hafeez Shaikh, PTI leaders granted bail in different cases: Case registered against GB CM Khalid Khurshid after PTI long march

♦ Ex-SSP Mufakhar Adeel gets life sentence in Shehbaz Tatla murder case

♦ IHC extends bar on Hanif Abbasi’s working until June 2

♦ Shahzain Bugti holds talks with PM Shehbaz in Islamabad

♦ Govt decides to shelve Punjab Rozgar Scheme

♦ Matric English paper leaked in Larkana

♦ Power outages continue amid 5,018 MW shortfall in country

♦ Most parts of country will remain in grip of heat

♦ China, Russia veto US bid at UN to punish North Korea

♦ Mountain fall takes Pakistani climber Ali Raza Sadpara’s life

♦ 29th death anniversary of filmstar Rani observed