♦ Pakistan, IMF strike $7 billion bailout package deal: IMF Executive Board needs to validate new three-year loan programme: New Extended Fund Facility aims to support govt to cement macroeconomic stability: Fund says servicing $242 billion foreign debt will swallow half of govt’s income in 2024: Decisive cost-reducing reforms must to bring down electricity tariff

♦ Court to pronounce verdict today on Imran Khan, Bushra’s appeals in Iddat case

♦ Interior minister, US envoy take up anti-terror cooperation: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi highlights importance of US assistance in LEAs capacity building

♦ Uzma Bukhari questions SC verdict in SIC reserved seats case

♦ Seniority list of LHC judges revised after Justice Neelum's elevation as CJ

♦ Adiala Jail superintendent transferred to Sahiwal

♦ Flour crisis feared in Sindh as countrywide millers’ strike enters its third day

♦ Another hefty hike in petrol and diesel prices likely

♦ Security forces’ vehicle bombed in Quetta

♦ CTD in Karachi arrests man for collecting funds for TTP

♦ SIFC signs agreement with UAE company to attract investment

♦ Several flights cancelled at Karachi Airport

♦ Two children die in Multan lightning strike

♦ Motorcyclist crushes child to death in Lahore Defence

♦ Woman shot dead by husband over domestic dispute in Hafizabad

♦ Trump tempers his outbursts in pitch for moderate voters

♦ Biden defiant on campaign trail but pressure mounts

♦ UN agency for Palestinians says has funds until end of September

♦ North Korea denounces NATO summit declaration

♦ PCB declines to issue NOC to Naseem Shah for playing in The Hundred