DINA for the issue of May 27, 2012

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May 27, 2012 Sunday Rajab 05, 1433
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Two die in Quetta rocket attacks
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, May 26: Two men were killed and 20 others, two women among them, injured in two rocket attacks here on Saturday evening.

Abdul Salam, 17, a labourer passing through Kandahari Bazaar on a bicycle, and Gul Zaman, another passer-by, were killed and 16 others injured when a rocket hit a shoe shop...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/two-die-in-quetta-rocket-attacks/

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No appeal against SC verdict: PPP decision dictated by political factors?
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, May 26: Literally within hours of the deadline, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's lawyer, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, announced that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) had decided not to file an appeal against the symbolic contempt punishment handed down to Mr Gilani by the Supreme Court on April 26.

The announcement — which came on the last day that the appeal could be filed — prompted experts to debate whether the prime minister's decision was made on the basis of legal or political considerations, especially since Advocate-on-record, M.S. Khattak, was waiting for a go-ahead to file a "210-page petition" with "146 questions of law" and "113 reasons" substantiating that the contempt punishment was unsustainable, according to Mr Ahsan's assisting Advocate, Gohar Ali Khan...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/no-appeal-against-sc-verdict-ppp-decision-dictated-by-political-factors/

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Conference adopts unanimous resolution on Balochistan: Stop military operation, find political solution
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By Ikram Junaidi
ISLAMABAD, May 26: Mainstream and nationalist political parties on Saturday unanimously called upon the government to stop the military operation in Balochistan, take steps for resolving the missing persons issue and work for a political solution to heal the province's wounds.

The call was made at a 'National Conference on Balochistan Issue & its Solution', organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association here...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/conference-adopts-unanimous-resolution-on-balochistan-stop-military-operation-find-political-solution/


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CIA reveals identity of 15 operatives
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WASHINGTON, May 26: The CIA is remembering those lost in covert operations, adding a new star to the intelligence agency's memorial wall and more than a dozen names to its 'Book of Honour'.

The star is for Jeffrey Patneau, a young officer killed in a car crash in Yemen in September 2008. CIA Director David Petraeus marked the loss and others to the war on terrorism at a private ceremony at CIA headquarters this past week...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/cia-reveals-identity-of-15-operatives/


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School principal, nephew shot dead
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By Our Staff Correspondent
QUETTA: The principal of Public School Kharan, said to be devoted to Pakistan, and his eight-year-old nephew were killed when armed men opened fire on their car on Saturday.

Sources said the incident took place when Principal Muzaffar Jamali was going to the school in his car with his nephew and two related girls...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/school-principal-nephew-shot-dead/


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US drone kills four in Waziristan
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By Our Correspondent
MIRAMSHAH, May 26: A US drone attack on a suspected compound near Miramshah in North Waziristan on Saturday killed four people. According to local people, two missiles were fired at the compound in Zafar town.

Residents who rushed to the site to retrieve the bodies expressed ignorance about those who were at the compound at the time of the attack. But officials told Dawn in Peshawar that two Arab nationals were among the dead...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/us-drone-kills-four-in-waziristan/


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Constitution's restoration biggest achievement People will not support long march: Gilani
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NAROWAL, May 26: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that the PPP enjoyed the support of the masses in all provinces and the opposition's planned long march would fail to get public support.

He said restoration in original form of the 1973 Constitution, which had been disfigured by dictators, was the biggest achievement of his government...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/constitutions-restoration-biggest-achievement-people-will-not-support-long-march-gilani/


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Hizb man killed in Kashmir gunbattle
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RAMBAN, May 26: A top Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed in a gunbattle with Indian forces in Indian-held Kashmir's Ramban district, police said on Saturday.

Ghulam Qadir alias Tohidul Islam, a self-styled Hizbul commander, was killed in Bhimdasa area in Ramban in a joint operation by police and army on Friday night...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/hizb-man-killed-in-kashmir-gunbattle/


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Time to reset ties with US: Bilawal
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, May 26: The US-Pakistan relationship is on the slide and a US Senate panel's decision to fine Pakistan for sentencing Dr Shakil Afridi has further compounded this phase, says PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

"But it is time to turn a new corner to re-establish a working relationship and political and military partnership that is the centrepiece to a stable South and Central Asia," Bilawal Zardari said in a speech to a select gathering of US and Pakistani officials, scholars, journalists and think-tank experts...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/27/time-to-re-set-ties-with-us-bilawal/


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