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♦ Govt, PTI trade barbs over foreign funding case: Khaqan Abbasi says verdict will expose Imran’s chicanery, Farrukh lashed out at PML-N for not submitting its record to ECP yet 
♦ Strange case of the cricket match that helped fund Imran Khan’s political rise: Despite laws banning foreign funding of politics in Pakistan, documents show a money trail from Oxfordshire via the UAE to the coffers of Imran Khan’s party: Abraaj’s Arif Naqvi transferred $2.2 million to PTI accounts in three installments

♦ ECP confirms receiving PTI MNAs’ resignations from NA speaker
♦ Tough contest on the cards as Punjab Assembly elects new speaker today: PTI’s Sibtain Khan to face PML-N’s Saif Khokhar
♦ Bilawal Bhutto holds talks with Tajik foreign minister Sirajuddin

♦ Petrol price likely to go up by Rs15, diesel by Rs18
♦ Ghulam Mehmood Dogar made new CCPO Lahore: Brig (r) Musaddiq Abbasi made Punjab CM advisor
♦ LPG price raised for third time in 48 hours
♦ CNG stations in Karachi shut for three days again

♦ Tayyaba Gul breaks down in tears while recording statement: Tells inquiry commission she can prove her harassment claims against ex-NAB chief
♦ Pakistan records steady coronavirus infections in 24 hours: NIH data shows sharp increase in Covid positivity ratio in GB cities: India reports 20,409 new Covid cases, 47 deaths: Study says testing people hours before an event can reduce virus transmission

♦ Flood situation persists in several Sindh, Punjab villages: Kachho villages submerged due to overflowing of rivers, nullahs in Balochistan, Kirthar Mountains: Gushing flood inundates Attock suburbs: There’s high-level flood at Head Qadirabad

♦ Dua Zahra’s husband, family’s bank accounts restored by SHC

♦ Three die in Motorway pile-up near Hafizabad

♦ Commonwealth Games begin in Birmingham