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- President Asif Ali Zardari has telephoned PPP leader Nabeel Gabol and summoned him to Islamabad for a detailed briefing on Lyari situation. (Nawa-e-Waqt, Ausaf)
- M/o Interior has seized contraband items and narcotics of around Rs. 960 million in seven months under their campaign to control smuggling: APP
- M/o Water and Power has issued nine Letters of Intent to different Solar Independent Power Producers to produce cumulative capacity of 228 MW electricity.
- NAB has clarified that Transparency International has misquoted Chairman NAB Admiral (Rtd) Fasih Bokhari when it says that NAB would deduct 25 per cent from the recovery of the RPPs. (Nation, News)
- Rs. 845 billion government uplift plans ready for approval. (Dawn)
- Pakistan has condemned the killing of a British employee of the ICRC who was kidnapped in January in Quetta. (Frontier Post)
- Pakistan and the US reach accord on restoring NATO supplies; breakthrough likely to come in a couple of days but Sunday’s drone strike may impact reconciliation process. (Pakistan Today)
- ANP Senator Haji Adeel has called for handing-over Karachi to the army. (Express)
- JUI-F and JUP discuss revival of MMA. (Dawn)
- PML-Q Chief Ch. Shujaat Hussain and Ch. Pervez Elahi have called for raise in employees’ salaries and pension for widows. (News)
- Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents denied that they had resumed talks with the US. (Pakistan Today)
- The US has advised Pakistan and India to withdraw troops from Siachen. (Express, Ausaf)
- US Ambassador in Pakistan Cameron Munter said, US respects and appreciates the sacrifices of Pakistan in the war against terrorism. (Frontier Post)
- Lyari bloodshed continues; 5 people including a cop killed; angry mob blocks thoroughfares, torch tyres; attacked the residence of PPP leader Nabeel Gabol in DHA, who escaped second attack. (Majority of papers)
- Government yet to suspend CAA Chief despite court orders. (News)
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