DINA for the issue of July 05, 2012

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D A W N I n t e r n e t N e w s A l e r t
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July 05, 2012 Thursday Sha'aban 14, 1433
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Contempt law being Amended: Govt move to clear judicial hurdle
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By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD, July 4: With the Nato supply route controversy almost sorted out, the government on Wednesday started rolling up its sleeves to wriggle out of the problems it is facing as a result of recent judicial decisions.

At a meeting, the cabinet approved a bill to change the contempt law to clip the judiciary's wings. The proposed bill will provide immunity to federal and provincial government leaders from being charged with or convicted of contempt of court...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/contempt-law-being-amended-govt-move-to-clear-judicial-hurdle/


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Pak-India talks on positive trajectory
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By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI, July 4: India and Pakistan held a first round of foreign secretary-level talks here on Wednesday, and sources close to the discussions said they had progressed on a positive trajectory, contrary to gloomy projections made by the media.

Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and his Pakistani counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani met just days after the arrest of a key suspect in the attacks on Mumbai. The issue of terrorism did figure in Wednesday's meeting and is expected to find reference together with all the key topics discussed between the two countries in a joint statement to be issued after a final round of parleys on Thursday...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/pak-india-talks-on-positive-trajectory/


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Terrorists kill three in Kuchlak
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, July 4: Terrorists belonging to an outlawed organisation ambushed an official vehicle and killed a senior government official and two other employees in Kuchlak area, some 25 kilometres from the provincial capital on Wednesday.

Abu Bakar Siddique, a spokesman for the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, called journalists from an unspecified place and claimed responsibility for the attack...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/terrorists-kill-three-in-kuchlak/


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'US respects people's aspirations': No secret deal with US: Khar
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, July 4: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar denied on Wednesday any secret deal for reopening Nato supply routes and insisted that the American 'sorry' showed their respect for aspirations of the people of Pakistan.

"I can today tell the people of Pakistan that US respects their aspirations as stated by the parliamentary recommendations," Ms Khar said at a reception at the US embassy to celebrate America's 236th Independence Day...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/us-respects-peoples-aspirations-no-secret-deal-with-us-khar/


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2,000 booked for burning 'blasphemer' to death
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By Our Correspondent
BAHAWALPUR, July 4: Police registered on Wednesday an FIR against about 2,000 men for killing a man, causing injuries to eight police personnel, rioting and torching a police station, four residential quarters and four police vehicles in Channigoth on the outskirts of Bahawalpur.

SHO Ghulam Mohyuddin of Channigoth told Dawn by phone the FIR had been lodged under sections 302, 395 PPC and 7 section of Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/2000-booked-for-burning-blasphemer-to-death/


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Woman working for NGO shot dead
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By Ibrahim Shinwari
LANDI KOTAL, July 4: A woman worker of a non-governmental organisation was gunned down in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency on Wednesday.

According to her family, three men who were hiding in bushes opened fire on 26-year-old Fareeda when she came out of her home in Ghundi in the morning to go to her office in Hayatabad area of Peshawar...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/woman-working-for-ngo-shot-dead/


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US to help rebuild highway to Afghanistan
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, July 4: The United States and Pakistan are trying to work out a separate arrangement for rebuilding the highway used for carrying supplies to Afghanistan, diplomatic sources told Dawn.

On Tuesday, the United States and Pakistan reached an agreement to reopen Nato supply routes to Afghanistan seven months after Islamabad blocked them following a US air raid that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/us-to-help-rebuild-highway-to-afghanistan/


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Officer linked to ephedrine case complains of victimisation
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, July 4: A senior official of the government's drug regulatory body requested the Supreme Court on Wednesday to save him from victimisation and said he might be made a petitioner in the ephedrine case.

Deputy Director General of the Drug Regulatory Agency of Pakistan Muhammad Tanvir told a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry that he had been made officer on special duty (OSD) and transferred to Gilgit-Baltistan despite the fact that there was no office, staff, budget or any other equipment to perform duty in the region...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/officer-linked-to-ephedrine-case-complains-of-victimisation/


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Dual-nationality case: FIA chief faces action for misleading court
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, July 4: Fayyaz Leghari, the director general of Federal Investigation Agency, found himself in hot water on Wednesday when the Supreme Court asked one of its senior officers to book him for wrongly arraigning a PPP member of the Punjab Assembly for having dual nationality.

A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered the additional registrar to lodge a criminal complaint against the FIA chief and other officers for providing misleading information that Tariq Mahmood Alloana, an MPA from Mandi Bahauddin, was a US citizen...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/dual-nationality-case-fia-chief-faces-action-for-misleading-court/


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Govt, young doctors make competing claims
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By Asif Chaudhry
LAHORE, July 4: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said here on Wednesday that doctors had ended their strike, but the Young Doctors Association immediately contradicted his claim.

"We will not resume work in outpatient and emergency departments till the release of all doctors, quashing of FIRs against them and issuance of a notification of service structure," Punjab YDA Punjab spokesman Dr Mudasar Razaq Khan told Dawn soon after the law minister had issued the statement...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/govt-young-doctors-make-competing-claims/


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Pakistan, Afghanistan report rise in polio cases
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PARIS, July 4: Conflict in Afghanistan and vaccination problems in Pakistan have led to a rise in polio cases there, imperilling efforts to wipe out the disease worldwide, a study said on Wednesday.

Newly introduced vaccines had the potential to eliminate polio in these countries if sufficient numbers of children could be reached, according to the paper, published in The Lancet medical journal...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/pakistan-afghanistan-report-rise-in-polio-cases/


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US expected to release blocked funds
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, July 4: Pakistan is expected to receive $2.5 billion during the current financial year from the United States under three different heads, particularly the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) following a thaw in tense relations between the two countries.
Informed sources said the disbursements might relieve the government of the pressure it was facing because of depleting foreign exchange reserves which necessitated an immediate bailout programme from the International Monetary Fund...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/us-expected-to-release-blocked-funds/

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Physicists celebrate evidence of elusive particle
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GENEVA, July 4: To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle on Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson, popularly known as the "god particle".

"We have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics," Rolf Heuer, director of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), said...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/05/physicists-celebrate-evidence-of-elusive-particle/


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Karachi Stocks Up 1.32 Points:
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KARACHI, July04: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 14202.11, up 1.32 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, July 04: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 96 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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