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• IMF lauds economic decisions, efforts to hike gas prices

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• Former senator Hidayat Ullah, two others killed in Bajaur blast

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• PM Shehbaz seeks barter trade revival with Russia in meeting with Putin

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• Mari Mining receives licences for exploration of minerals in Chagai

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• ECP protest case: Islamabad court acquits Imran, Qureshi

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• Amendment to SOEs law approved

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