DINA for the issue of July 24, 2011
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July 24, 2011 Sunday Sha'aban 21, 1432
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July 24, 2011 Sunday Sha'aban 21, 1432
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Pakistan needs no cajoling on militancy, says Hina
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NUSA DUA (Indonesia), July 23: Pakistan's new foreign minister, who held talks on Saturday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said the two countries shared the strategic objective of combating terror groups and Islamabad did not need any cajoling on the issue.
Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's first female and youngest-ever foreign minister, also told reporters on the sidelines of an Asian security conference that she expected positive results from a meeting with her Indian counterpart next week, in what could be a major turning point in ties between the two countries since they resumed peace talks earlier this year...
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92 dead in Norway carnage
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OSLO, July 23: Norwegian police searched for more victims and a possible second gunman on Saturday after a suspected right-wing zealot killed almost 100 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack that have traumatised a once-placid country.
Police said 85 people were known to have died in the shooting at an idyllic island near Oslo and seven in the bomb blast near the prime minister's office. The overall death toll could reach 98 if some missing people proved to have died...
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Shooting, arson keep Karachi on edge
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By Imran Ayub and Shamim-ur-Rahman
KARACHI, July 23: An uneasy calm returned to strife-hit areas of Karachi on Saturday, though random incidents of armed and arson attacks left two people dead and sowed fears in different neighborhoods.
Vehicles were seen plying on road in Khokrapar area of Malir, but major markets remained closed because of funeral of two Muttahida Qaumi Movement activists who were killed in Friday' attacks. Two young men were shot dead and another injured in Buffer Zone after midnight. Police said armed men on motorbikes intercepted three friends Owais, Raheel and Salahuddin near a shopping centre and fired multiple shots...
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Resignations yet to be accepted: Gilani
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that resignations of federal and provincial ministers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) had not been accepted so far and "their status as ministers is still intact".
"The Sindh governor, federal and provincial ministers of the MQM had tendered their resignations, but we have not accepted them. Till the time their resignations are accepted their status as ministers is intact," the prime minister said in his brief chat with reporters after presiding over the 13th Annual Awards Ceremony of National Highways and Motorway Police at the PM Secretariat...
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Five Punjab labourers shot dead in Balochistan
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, July 23: Armed men killed five labourers on the outskirts of Nushki town, some 170km west of here, on Saturday.
Sources in the Levies Force told Dawn the labourers were attacked when they were working at an under-construction mosque in the Killi Kasan Kori village, some 15km from Nushki...
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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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Two die in blast
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QUETTA: Two people were killed when a bomb exploded on a railway track in Sariab area here on Saturday night.
Quetta DIG Hamid Shakeel said the explosive device was detonated by remote control. A small bridge was also destroyed, he added. The deceased were identified as Abdul Mutlib and Sher Zaman.— Staff Correspondent...
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What the WikiLeaks cables do not tell us
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By Hasan Zaidi
KARACHI: How minutely were the Americans involved in brokering the deal between former president Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto that resulted in her return from exile in 2007 after eight years? What was US diplomats' take on the brazen militant attack on the General Headquarters (GHQ) on Oct 9, 2009, in which terrorists held several soldiers and others hostages for more than 18 hours? Did the Americans have any information on the alleged secret Swiss bank accounts of Pakistan's political leaders? How did the US government assess the strategic implications of China's involvement in Balochistan?These are some of the questions that remain unanswered in the trove of secret US diplomatic cables accessed by Dawn through WikiLeaks. The absence of any significant communications dealing with these burning issues in Pakistan is astounding, especially since US diplomats seem to have sent voluble information back to Washington on a number of lesser issues.
The impact of avian influenza on Pakistan's poultry industry and the country's preparedness to deal with the virus, for example, formed the specific subject of no less than eight different cables in 2007 and 2008...
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PSO seeks Rs40bn to avoid default
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ISLAMABAD, July 23: The Pakistan State Oil has sought Rs40 billion to avoid default on LCs (letters of credit) for payments to overseas suppliers, including the Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC).
In a letter to the finance ministry, the PSO highlighted its payables and receivables as of Saturday. LC payments to the KPC and other foreign suppliers amount to Rs110.6 billion, while payables to local refineries stand at Rs56.27 billion. The due date for payment of Rs50.97 billion has already passed...
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Power tariff to be raised by 2pc: minister
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By Aziz Malik
HYDERABAD, July 23: Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar has rejected reports that power tariff is being increased by six per cent, saying there is a proposal to raise it by only two per cent which is necessary.
He said that if electricity tariff was not raised, the government would have to provide subsidy, which would be a burden on the exchequer...
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Fai's arrest was long overdue: India
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NEW DELHI, July 23: The arrest of a man accused of acting as a Pakistani government agent in the United States "was long overdue" India's home secretary said on Saturday, according to a report.
Ghulam Nabi Fai, 62, a US citizen detained on Tuesday, is suspected of links to a decades-long effort that allegedly funnelled millions of dollars to Washington to lobby US politicians on behalf of the Kashmiri cause...
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Strike paralyses Kashmir
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SRINAGAR, July 23: A general strike paralysed Indian-held Kashmir on Saturday in a second day of protest against the alleged rape of a woman by two soldiers.
The strike shut most shops, schools and offices in Srinagar and other major towns of the scenic area and came after protesters on Friday torched a government vehicle and clashed with police...
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Member of TTP's 'intelligence group' caught
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By Munawer Azeem
ISLAMABAD, July 23: A senior member of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's 'intelligence group' was picked up by security agencies in an operation carried out in the suburbs of the federal capital, sources told Dawn on Saturday.
One of his associates was also seized...
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Malik proposes Saarc body for policing
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THIMPHU, July 23: Interior Minister Rehman Malik emphasised the need on Saturday for coordinated and concerted efforts by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation to combat terrorism and money laundering.
Addressing the fourth Saarc Interior Ministers' Conference here in the Bhutanese capital, he said Pakistan was making serious endeavours to eliminate the menaces from society...
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