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♦ 'IMF-dictated' budget may pave way for new loan programme: Talks between govt and IMF conclude today: Fund asks Pakistan to raise taxes, electricity and gas tariffs

♦ PM Shehbaz reaches Abu Dhabi on day-long visit of UAE

♦ PM forms committee to solve problems of Gilgit-Baltistan, notification issued

♦ The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) identifies more than 5 lac non-filers and blocks 11,252 mobile SIMs of tax non-filers

♦ Court puts off hearing of Toshakhana case against Nawaz Sharif

♦ 25-member committee to evaluate medical education standards after Bishkek violence notified

♦ Over 170 Pakistani students belonging to Sindh return to Karachi from Bishkek

♦ Doctors advise against taking PTI leader Yasmin Rashid to court

♦ Lahore SHO suspended for standing up to PML-N leader

♦ Cause list of IHC’s Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiani cases cancelled

♦ Mohsin Naqvi forms committee to address married women's passport name issue

♦ Direct Hajj flights from Pakistan to Jeddah begin tomorrow

♦ 12 national and international flights cancelled, delayed at Karachi Airport

♦ PIA offers 20% discount to Pakistani students traveling from China to homeland

♦ PIA shares to be delisted from Pakistan Stock Exchange on Saturday

♦ US and Sindh govt launch $9 million initiative  to combat tuberculosis in Pakistan 

♦ Sindh cities sizzle at 50 degrees Celsius as heatwave shows no sign of relenting

♦ 1,200 ghost employees detected in CDA

♦ AjK teacher arrested for brutally torturing young student

♦ Three shepherds die after falling into well in Rohri

♦ Banned TTP Swat commander arrested from Jamshoro

♦ Fire erupts at shopping plaza in Islamabad

♦ Man hammers friend to death in Jhelum