♦ May 9 plotters, perpetrators won’t be allowed to dodge law: Military: ISPR statement rules out any compromise with planners, facilitators and executors of May 9 tragedy

♦ Federal Cabinet condemns May 9 tragedy as darkest day in country’s history

♦ Nation observes May 9 as black day pledging not to ‘forget and forgive’: President Zardari says 9th May will be remembered as a dark day in Pakistan’s history: PM Shehbaz vows no soft-pedaling of May 9 incidents

♦ Seven Punjabi labourers shot dead in their sleep in Gwadar

♦ Police seal Islamabad’s Red Zone to prevent any May 9 protest

♦ Lawyers observe countrywide strike against torture by police: Heavy police contingents take positions outside LHC in view of possible lawyers’ protest today

♦ Notorious Katcha dacoit gunned down in encounter with Khairpur police

♦ Fire paralyses immigration system, disrupts flights at Lahore Airport: Building vacated after airport’s lounge catches fire: First Hajj flight delayed: Interior Minister Naqvi seeks report, orders probe into incident

♦ Cheating mafia rules Sindh matric exams as more papers leak

♦ Three policemen killed in bomb attack in Afghanistan

♦ Pro-Palestinian campus protests spread to UK universities: Riot police, protesters clash at Amsterdam Gaza demo

♦ US threatens to stop arm shipments if Israel invades Rafah: WHO warns Gaza hospitals have only three days' fuel left: Hamas naval commander killed

♦ Israel destroys dozens of Bedouin homes in Negev desert

♦ South Korea to create ministry for tackling low birth rates

♦ Democrats save Republican US House speaker from right-wing rebel

♦ China's Xi in Hungary to celebrate 'new era' with Orban

♦ Pakistan and Japan to clash in final of Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Cup final