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♦ Six parties seek withdrawal of their review petitions against SC Faizabad sit-in verdict: After IB and PEMRA, govt, PTI, ECP and Sh Rasheed say they are taking their pleas back: Justice Isa says SC yet to decide on withdrawal of petitions

♦ UN chief assails ‘broken promises’ of rich countries on Pakistan flood aid: Guterres says reconstruction aid lagging for victims of 2022 devastating floods: Billions were pledged but vast majority was in loans: Pakistan ‘double’ victim of climate chaos and unjust global financial system: Calls for creation of ‘loss and damage’ fund for poor countries like Pakistan

♦ LHC reserves verdict on govt’s pleas against discharge of Pervaiz Elahi from corruption cases

♦ PTI leader Farrukh Habib, brother, four others arrested in Gwadar

♦ PM Kakar offers nawafil at Roza-e-Rasool in Madinah

♦ KP CTD announces bounty on heads of wanted terrorists

♦ Senator Irfan Siddiqui falls from chair during Senate panel huddle

♦ Kh Asif trashes reports Shehbaz Sharif carried establishment’s message to London

♦ CJP fines lawyer Rs100,000 for wasting court’s time in useless property case

♦ Conjunctivitis spreading in Punjab rapidly: 13,732 cases reported in 24 hours with a total of 86,000.

♦ Shamshad Akhtar-led task force to introduce tax reforms

♦ PIA at 5th place in domestic flight operation rankings of CAA

♦ Strike by doctors, other staff enters 5th day at Shaikh Zayed Hospital in Lahore

♦ Mohsin Naqvi visits Government Girls School Ravi Road and get angry on attendance of students suffering from cataracts

♦ CM Naqvi reveals few names involved in fake injection scandal: says everyone involved to be arrested: no one get concessions

♦ CM Punjab Mohsin Naqvi orders to make Lahore’s main Quaid-e-Azam Highway dust free

♦ Little girl dead, mother injured in firing over ‘family dispute’ in Karachi

♦ Four die in bus-tractor trolley collision near Sukkur

♦ Trader kidnapped from Peshawar’s Saddar area

♦ Punjab to export rice worth $2 billion this year

♦ Laser light targeting planes at Lahore Airport endangers flights’ safety

♦ PPSC declares 329 candidates passed in PMS exam

♦ Govt crackdown rattles Afghan refugees in Pakistan

♦ Pakistan cricket team practices after grand welcome in Hyderabad

♦ Eid- Milad-un-Nabi preparations are in full swing: streets and markets are decorated with lights, flowers and flags