DINA for the issue of July 04, 2012

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July 04, 2012 Wednesday Sha'aban 13, 1433
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DCC approves accord after US says 'sorry' over Salala attack: Nato supply routes reopened
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, July 3: The Defence Committee of the Cabinet allowed on Tuesday reopening of Nato ground supply routes for the sake of Afghan peace and stability and facilitating drawdown of coalition forces from Afghanistan after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said 'sorry' over the deaths of 24 Pakistani troops in the Salala border post attack.

The decision of the defence committee, which serves as the highest national security policy coordination forum, was announced by Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira at the conclusion of its meeting. He said the decision had been taken in accordance with a mandate given by parliament and aspirations of people...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/dcc-approves-accord-after-us-says-sorry-over-salala-attack-nato-supply-routes-reopened/


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US appreciates decision not to press fee issue
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, July 3: A statement issued by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton here on Tuesday shows that the US-Pakistan agreement envisaged that "consistent with current practice, no lethal equipment will transit the GLOC (Ground Lines of Communication) into Afghanistan except for equipping the ANSF".

It indicates that Pakistan will also allow the US to use this route for arming the Afghan National Security Force. The agreement contains three main points, the US apology, Pakistan's decision to forgo transit fee and an acknowledgment that both sides made mistakes that led to the death of 24 Pakistani soldiers in Salala on Nov 26...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/us-appreciates-decision-not-to-press-fee-issue/


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Pressure grows on Punjab health system
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By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE, July 3: As the Punjab government and the striking doctors stuck to their stance on the issue of strike and service structure, the patients continued to suffer owing to the absence of a large number of trained medics from the state-run hospitals. On directives of the health department, heads of most of the teaching and district hospitals started issuing show-cause notices on Tuesday to the striking doctors with a warning to 'resume their duties within 24 hours or face termination', a source said.

The provincial government warned that an unconditional end to the strike would be the only option before initiating dialogue on the demand for service structure, while the agitating doctors termed it a futile exercise...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/pressure-grows-on-punjab-health-system/


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Readership survey
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TODAY'S edition of Dawn carries the DAWN Readership Questionnaire. It comprises 39 questions for readers to answer. Your answers will enable us to learn more about your lifestyle patterns and readership habits enabling us to produce a newspaper tailored to your reading requirements.

As a token of our appreciation for your time and effort, the names of the respondents will be entered into a computerised Lucky Draw, giving you a chance to win one of 23 prizes including air tickets to Bangkok, iPads, laptops, plasma TVs, BlackBerry Curves and iPod Nanos...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/readership-survey-2/


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PAC releases list of judges owning two plots
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By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD, July 3: It was a day of double whammy for the Supreme Court. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly released names of retired and serving judges of the apex court who have been allotted more than one residential plots in Islamabad and directed the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) to clarify if government funds spent on judges' salaries and other operations of the Supreme Court could be taken up for scrutiny as is done in the case of other government departments.

The committee met on Tuesday with Nadeem Afzal Gondal in the chair...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/pac-releases-list-of-judges-owning-two-plots/


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Punjab healthcare crisis: It takes two to tangle
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By Asif Chaudhry
LAHORE, July 3: The standoff between the young doctors and the Shahbaz Sharif government continues to affect healthcare services across Punjab. The stopgap arrangement — induction of new medics, asking a few hundred senior doctors to work overtime and deployment of some 150 army doctors, etc — in public hospitals has had only a small impact, given that the province is faced with the absence of some 22,000 striking doctors.

The government imposed the Essential Services Act followed by the Sunday-night swoop on a YDA meeting in Lahore. Many young doctors were arrested which only exacerbated the situation...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/punjab-healthcare-crisis-it-takes-two-to-tangle/


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Approver blames Shahab, Musa in chemical quota case
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By Malik Asad
RAWALPINDI, July 3: The Minister for Textiles Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Ali Musa Gilani, son of former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, and Principal Secretary to the PM, Khushnood Akhtar Lashari, face an uphill task to prove wrong a statement by the former director general of health, Dr Rashid Juma, if they want to get a clean chit in the ephedrine case.

The statement by Dr Juma, recorded by the Anti-Narcotics Force on June 16 and submitted in the Lahore High Court, alleged that the three accused were behind illegal allocation of 9,000kg of chemical ephedrine to two pharmaceutical companies, Berlex and Danas...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/chemical-quota-case-approver-blames-shahab-musa/


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Mumbai, Kashmir stalk foreign secretaries
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By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI, July 3: A decade ago Jalil Abbas Jilani was acting chief of

Pakistan's already depleted high commission in Delhi after the attack on the Indian parliament. Then like his boss he too was sent home through the Wagah border over unverified charges of giving money to a Kashmiri leader...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/mumbai-kashmir-stalk-foreign-secretaries/


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Another MNA suspended by SC
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By Iftikhar A. Khan
ISLAMABAD, July 3: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court suspended on Tuesday the membership of MNA Jameel Malik of PML-N for holding dual nationality and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry who headed the bench categorically stated that nobody was above the law.

"If the chief justice and prime minister can be put on trial there is no exception for anyone," he said while responding to remarks made by Mr Malik's counsel that the case had put the legislature on trial...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/another-mna-suspended-by-sc/


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Rs2.5bn Ramazan package
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, July 3: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Tuesday approved Rs2.5 billion relief package on essential items for Ramazan and decided to divert natural gas from the fertiliser industry to the power generation sector to reduce electricity loadshedding.

Having far-reaching economic consequences, the decision to give priority to the power sector over fertiliser and industrial consumers would, however, be cleared by the prime minister and perhaps by the federal cabinet before implementation...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/rs2-5bn-ramazan-package/


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Number of missing people on the rise
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, July 3: The number of "missing people" has been constantly rising despite efforts of the government, parliament and the Supreme Court to resolve the issue. This is reflected in a statement issued by the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances here on Tuesday.

The latest figures released by a two-member commission headed by Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal show that a total of 518 cases of `missing people' were under investigation before it till June 30...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/another-mna-suspended-by-sc/


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Karachi Stocks Up 62.79 Points:
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KARACHI, July03: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 14205.71, up 62.79 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, July 03: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 96 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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