♦ Finance minister out as Council of Common Interests reconstituted

♦ Pakistan heading for a major 3-year loan deal with IMF, says finance minister: Says talks with IMF are scheduled for April 14-15: Hopes inflation, interest rates will come down gradually: Says govt must end economic leakages worth Rs3 trillion

♦ Punjab govt launches Nawaz Sharif Kisan Card to facilitate 500,000 small farmers: State of the art Research and Development Centre will be set up at Faisalabad Agri University

♦ Challenges to election victory notifications multiply

♦ PM Shehbaz bans use of red carpet for protocol

♦ Pervaiz Elahi demands TV, and home-cooked food during treatment at PIMS hospital

♦ High courts give relief to two PTI leaders

♦ CJ LHC seeks report on Imran Khan's security concerns in Adiala Jail

♦ Cabinet ‘approves’ Lt-General Munir Afsar's appointment as Nadra chairman for three years

♦ Pakistan’s exports to Iran remain zero

♦ PPP rally on eve of ZAB 45th death anniversary postponed

♦ PTI's Sanam Javed and Alia Hamza arrested in new case

♦ Punishing Nawaz Sharif on Iqama in Panama case was a mistake, says Imran’s sister

♦ PPP's Zubair Junejo elected unopposed from PS-80 Dadu

♦ Interior minister updates Chinese team about probe into Bisham terror attack

♦ PIA air hostess arrested at Toronto Airport

♦ Pakistani rupee consolidates against US dollar in interbank

♦ Consumers to get solar panels by making a 25% payment

♦ Rs10 per liter hike in petrol price proposed

♦ Nepra allows Rs2.75 per unit increase in electricity tariff

♦ TT Singh murder: Sister claims Maria was brutally tortured by father, brother before murder: District Magistrate hands over both accused to police on two-day physical remand

♦ Physical training of National Cricket Team continues at Kakul

♦ Two people slain in Mianwali shooting

♦ Delivery boy shot dead by dacoits in Karachi

♦ 36 Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli attack near Aleppo

♦ Head constable shot dead in Tank

♦ 8-day spring vacations for schools and colleges announced