One Liner
- Arif Alvi sworn in as 13th President of Pakistan. CJP Nisar administers oath to Alvi.
- Mamnoon completes term as president, Alvi takes oath today
- Ali Tower blaze: Fire safety equipment, SOPs missing, according to CDD notice. Civil Defence Department survey suggests at least 150 high rises in Lahore lack fire safety equipment and facilities.
- Imran Rasul, another economist resigns from EAC
- PM to visit Karachi on Sept 16
- World unprepared for next financial crisis: ex-IMF chief. Dominique Strauss-Kahn says international cooperation on managing monetary crisis doesn’t exist anymore.
- Soldier martyred in Awaran operation: ISPR. 4 ‘terrorists’ involved in ambush on military convoy in Mashkai earlier this year killed during IBO.
- Saudi, Chinese ministers call on PM Khan in Islamabad. KSA media minister invites PM Khan to visit Saudi.
- PTI plans two-tier LG system sans tehsil councils in Punjab. Local bodies to be given one-third of development budget; final decision to be taken by PM Khan.
- Japan quake toll rises to 35. The majority of the dead are from the small rural town of Atsuma.