DINA for the issue of July 23, 2011
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July 23, 2011 Saturday Sha'aban 20, 1432
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July 23, 2011 Saturday Sha'aban 20, 1432
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BNP-M leader killed in Khuzdar
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, July 22: Balochistan National Party (Mengal) leader Mir Juma Khan Raisani was gunned down along with his security guard and two other people on Friday in Khuzdar, about 320 kilometres south of here.
According to police, Mir Raisani was attacked when he was going home after Friday prayers. Gunmen sprayed his vehicle with bullets, killing him, his Levies guard, driver and another person on the spot...
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Haqiqi tries to stage comeback: Karachi party feud claims 13 lives
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By Imran Ayub
KARACHI, July 22: Bloodshed made its way back into Karachi on Friday with 13 killings as the city, reeling from ethnic and political conflicts that had killed over 100 people earlier this month, saw a new twist in its violent history when the Muhajir Qaumi Movement, better known as Haqiqi, attempted to stage a comeback in strongholds of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
City police chief Saud Mirza said the violence was sparked when "some men of a group entered Khokhrapar area of Malir and targeted their opponents"...
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Auditors find massive irregularities in defence spending
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By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD, July 22: The government laid down on Friday audit reports for 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, unearthing mind-boggling cases of embezzlement and mismanagement of public funds.
The reports will be taken up by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly in coming months...
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US House panel backs restrictions on Pakistan aid
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, July 22: The US House Foreign Affairs Committee approved on Friday a bill that would defund a $7.5 billion aid to Pakistan programme if signed into law, dealing a serious blow to already strained relations between the two allies.
On Thursday, the committee had rejected an amendment proposed by Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, which sought to block all aid to Pakistan because of its alleged reluctance to combat terrorists...
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Karachi disorder intolerable, Gilani tells NA
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, July 22: After two days of debate on recurrent violence in Karachi, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told the National Assembly on Friday his government would not tolerate disorder in the country's economic hub and asked all political forces to help maintain peace there.
Soon after his return from a four-day private visit to Britain, the prime minister reached the house in time before it was prorogued after a special opposition-convened session, which also debated other items of the opposition agenda: allegations against the government of disregarding Supreme Court orders and what a joint requisition note of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) called "massive rigging" in Azad Kashmir's Legislative Assembly elections, which were won by the state chapter of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP)...
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Protest swells in Kashmir over rape report
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SRINAGAR, July 22: Thousands hurling rocks and shouting anti-India slogans protested in a remote village in Indian-held Kashmir on Friday, after a woman told police she was abducted and raped by army soldiers.
The 25-year-old woman filed a police report saying two soldiers abducted her on Tuesday near her home in Manzgam village and held her in a meadow hut, raping her repeatedly over two days, according to her statement on Thursday. Her husband later told reporters she was left in the meadow and made her way home in a state of shock but would be able to identify her attackers...
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Karachi Stocks Up 2.00 Points:
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KARACHI, July 22: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 12476.77, up 2.00 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, July 22: 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 22: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 86.15 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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