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♦ PM Shehbaz forms another committee on human smuggling

♦ CM Maryam invites UAE investment in Punjab: UAE envoy meets CM to boost bilateral projects

♦ Govt to unveils 5-year economic transformation plan tomorrow

♦ Govt presents Toshakhan's gift register in court

♦ Hike in petroleum products prices proposed

♦ Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court acquits two in terror funding case

♦ British High Commissioner Jane Marriott visits Lahore's Delhi Gate

♦ New Year Night: IGP orders no tolerance for aerial firing, one-wheeling

♦ Sit-ins over Kurram issue continue in Karachi and Lahore enters seventh day

♦ Sindh United Party launches symbolic hunger strike over new canals issue

♦ Ban on street shows: Wildlife Dept rescues three monkeys from jugglers

♦ Doctors at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital strike against harassment of their female colleague

♦ Youth gunned down by dacoits in Kandhkot

♦ Historic Ice Hockey Tournament kicks off at world’s highest ground in Shandur

♦ Anti-polio campaign starts in Balochistan

♦ Australian star Matthew Short registers for PSL-10 draft

♦ 20 people killed in different road accidents in Punjab, Sindh cities: 10 persons die at Fateh Jang after their bus overturns; Seven perish in Kandiaro in bus’s collision with tractor trolley; Three labourers lose their lives in Wazirabad after run over by tractor trolley

♦ Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100: Biden declares January 9 national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter

♦ PM Shehbaz offers condolences over Jimmy Carter’s passing: Honours former US President for advocacy in global peace

♦ LHC mandates re-registration of schools across Punjab: All schools to be registered in a month; The court orders strict rules for schools without transport facilities; Education officials face contempt over negligence; Schools Education Department Secretary Khalid Nazir Wattoo calls meeting of big school chains tomorrow

♦ Punjab jails to go solar: Major energy shift approved: Home Secretary okays scheme for 44 prisons in province; Rs2.3 bn allocated for solars

♦ FIA expels its 18 officials, personnel from Gujrat, Gujranwala, Sialkot districts: SHC accepts FIA officials’ plea for immediate hearing of Greece boat tragedy case

♦ MDCAT retake exam begins today for AJK, GB, and Islamabad students: Rohit, Kohli fall as India 33-3 chasing 340 against Australia

♦ Journalist Progressive Alliance wins big in Lahore Press Club elections: Arshad Insari re-elected president for 13th time, Zahid Abid as Secretary

♦ Blinding fog returns to Punjab; motorways sealed for safety: Cities witness foggy skies and freezing nights; Lahore breathes wasier with improved AQI

♦ PIA Employees Union referendum to be held tomorrow

♦ Virtual women police save girl from rapist in Lahore

♦ FIA offloads Karachi women en route to Saudi Arabia for begging

♦ Syria's leader says elections could take 4 years: Al Arabiya interview

♦ Gaza under fire: Hospitals, schools hit in savage Israeli strikes

♦ Indian Punjab shuts down in solidarity with protesting farmers

♦ Indian workers replace Palestinians in Israel's building sector