DINA for the issue of July 22, 2011
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July 22, 2011 Friday Sha'aban 19, 1432
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July 22, 2011 Friday Sha'aban 19, 1432
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Rs900 million for Thar coal power project
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By Amin Ahmed
ISLAMABAD, July 21: Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said on Thursday that Rs900 million had been approved for the Thar coal gasification project to generate 100MW of electricity.
He made the announcement after a meeting attended by Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim Hussain and Dr Samar Mubarakmand, Member (Science and Technology) of the Planning Commission...
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Plan to raise power tariff, cut subsidies
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By Mubarak Zeb Khan
ISLAMABAD: With no respite in sight from power outages, officials in the finance and power ministries are toying with the idea of further increasing the electricity tariff and reducing subsidy on tubewells in Balochistan, besides improving recoveries, in order to create fiscal space for reduction in the circular debt.
The main factor which aggravated the circular debt was the wide gap between collection and the cost of power generation. This gap recently reached Rs20 billion a month and led to the piling up of the debt, which increased to an alarming level...
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Move described as part of slander campaign: Protest lodged with US over Fai's arrest
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, July 21: Pakistan protested on Thursday against the arrest of Kashmiri-American Council (KAC) director Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai in the US, saying the move could not deprive the Kashmir cause of its legitimacy.
"A demarche was made to the US embassy in Islamabad today to register our concerns," a statement issued by the Foreign Office said...
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US Congress sends mixed signals on aid
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, July 21: The US Congress sent a mixed signal to Pakistan on Thursday, rejecting one move to restrict aid to the country while supporting the other.The development came amid a warning from the new CIA chief not to push Pakistan too hard as the country had already poked "a lot of short sticks in hornets' nests".
One of the bills taken up by the House Foreign Affairs Committee would bar security and civilian aid to Pakistan unless the Obama administration certified that Pakistan was making progress on fighting terrorism...
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Four die in attack on OGDC vehicle
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, July 21: Three employees of the Oil and Gas Development Company and a rickshaw driver were killed in a bomb blast in Dera Allahyar town, about 300 kilometres east of here, on Thursday.
Three people were injured. An OGDC vehicle carrying six employees, including two engineers, was hit by the blast, a senior police officer told Dawn...
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Afghan shell kills villagers
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By Anwarullah Khan
KHAR, July 21: Two people were killed and five others injured when mortar shells fired from Afghanistan hit a house in a border village in Bajaur Agency on Thursday.
Local people said at least nine mortar shells landed in Bandagai. One shell hit the house of Malik Kharo, killing him and his wife Walifa. Three children and two women were injured and were taken to the agency headquarters hospital in Khar...
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Army condemns killing of missing persons in Balochistan: general
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By Our Staff Correspondent
QUETTA, July 21: The Commander of the Army's Southern Command, Lt-Gen Javed Zia, condemned on Thursday the killing of missing people and dumping of their bodies in different areas of the province and said this could have an adverse effect on the integrity of the country and cause separation of Balochistan.
But, he dispelled a perception that the army, FC or any other agency was involved in such killings and said that it was not the policy of the army leadership. Gen Javed Zia was talking to local editors and senior journalists at the Quetta Club...
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PIA union leader shot dead in Peshawar
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By Ali Hazrat Bacha
PESHAWAR, July 21: Syed Kamal, the provincial president of PIA's People's Unity, was shot dead along with his driver Mohammad Ayaz here on Thursday.
According to Peshtakhara police, Mr Kamal was ambushed in a busy commercial area when he was going to his residence in the Bara Gate area in Peshawar cantonment...
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Gilani for good relations with United States
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ISLAMABAD, July 21: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday that the world should acknowledge the sacrifices made by the people of Pakistan in the war against terror.
In an interview with BBC during his visit to the United Kingdom, he said: "We want a good relationship with the United States and this has nothing to do with our relationship with China."..
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Foreign ministers' talks on 27th
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ISLAMABAD, July 21: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will visit India next week at the invitation of her Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna for the foreign minister-level talks on July 27, the Foreign Office announced here on Thursday.
The talks will be preceded by a meeting of the foreign secretaries of the two countries on July 26...
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Mild opposition attack on govt
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, July 21: A divided opposition stood united on an odd walkout but could manage only a mild attack on the government over Karachi violence and some alleged wrongdoings at the start of a special session of the National Assembly on Thursday.
And the PPP-led coalition government, which seemed little worried, went out of its way to save the day for the opposition by agreeing to discard its own agenda so the house, during the two-day session, could discuss only the points raised by the Pakistan Muslim League-N and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in their identical requisitions for convening the two houses of parliament...
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Karachi Stocks Up 49.63 Points:
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KARACHI, July 21: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 12482.80, up 49.63 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, July 21: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 86.15 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, July 21: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 86.15 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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