♦ Aurangzeb highlights Pakistan economic gains in Washington meetings: Finance Minister holds talks with global leaders, briefing them on macroeconomic strategy, climate resilience: Assures IMF of maintaining reform momentum: Invites Kristalina Georgieva to Pakistan: Lauds IFC’s role in raising $2.5b for Reko Diq project: Briefs senior US Treasury official on economic reforms
♦ Pakistan keen to bolster space cooperation with China: PM Shehbaz Sharif says Islamabad wants to excel in space technology, space satellites, telecommunications, satellite internet
♦ PM Shehbaz leaves for two-day Turkiye visit
♦ Nawaz Sharif to return home on Friday
♦ Don't come to court to seek delays, Justice Kakar warns prosecutor: SC judge warns public prosecutor against seeking delays in political cases: Court fixes hearing of Sh Rasheed's GHQ attack case next week
♦ Govt establishes National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency
♦ Govt to abolish 168 incomplete development projects under IMF pressure: Incomplete projects shut to save Rs850 billion next year: Rs300 billion have already been spent on these projects
♦ CM Maryam wants PERA to be fully functional till Sept 30
♦ Mohsin Naqvi orders completion of Murree Road underpass project in 35 days: Interior Minister says there should be no compromise on quality of work
♦ Does not want PTI to be banned, says Akbar S. Babar
♦ Punjab IGP transfers five DPOs with immediate effect
♦ ATC Lahore issues non-bailable arrest warrants for CM Gandapur: Court also orders police to arrest PTI's Hammad Azhar, Saeed Sandhu and Shehbaz Ahmad in Oct 5 protest case
♦ TLP leader injured in rival group's firing at Lahore wedding: Ghulam Murtaza group attacks Haji Nawaz and family for following groom's car near Sundar area: Wife, son, brother and two bodyguards also injured: Police arrest three gunmen
♦ Gold price tops all-time high of Rs363,700 per tola
♦ Govt reconstitutes Overseas Pakistanis Foundation BoG
♦ 16 labourers die as bus crashes in Jamshoro
♦ Two police officers martyred in Taunsa Sharif gun attack
♦ Holding of intermediate exams faces delay in Karachi
♦ Proclaimed offender killed in encounter with Lahore police
♦ Ten int’l, domestic flights cancelled from Karachi Airport
♦ Met Office predicts heatwave for Sindh until April 27
♦ Pope Francis died of stroke, heart failure, says Vatican
♦ Fleeing Pakistan, Afghans rebuild from nothing
♦ Indian PM Modi visits Saudi Arabia to bolster ties
♦ Gaza rescuers say seven killed in Israeli air strikes
♦ Trump tariffs torch chances of meeting with China's Xi
♦ Trump backs Pentagon chief despite new Signal chat scandal
♦ Harvard University sues Trump over US federal funding cuts
♦ Harvard University sues Trump over US federal funding cuts