DINA for the issue of July 08, 2012

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July 08, 2012 Sunday Sha'aban 17, 1433
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Serena is back at the top
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WIMBLEDON, July 7: Serena Williams is back, and she looks almost as good as ever. The 30-year-old American won her fifth Wimbledon title on Saturday, beating Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to claim her 14th major championship.

Williams is the first woman in her 30s to win a Wimbledon title since Martina Navratilova, who won at the All England Club in 1990 when she was 33...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/serena-is-back-at-the-top

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CJ's observation: SC can void any law in conflict with Constitution
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By Tahir Siddiqui
KARACHI, July 7: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Saturday the Constitution embodied the will of people and empowered the Supreme Court to strike down any law which encroached upon the constitutionally-guaranteed basic rights of citizens.

Addressing a ceremony of newly-enrolled advocates for the Supreme Court at the Karachi registry, he referred to a misconception regarding the supremacy of parliament, saying the apex court was empowered under Article 8 to strike down any law which was in conflict with the Constitution...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/cjs-observation-sc-can-void-any-law-in-conflict-with-constitution

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LHC asks doctors to end strike
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By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh
LAHORE, July 7: The Lahore High Court ordered young doctors on Saturday to end their strike and resume work in outpatient and inpatient departments of all government hospitals from Monday morning.

However, the Young Doctors Association's president, Hamid Butt, and secretary general Nasir Abbas said a general council meeting of the association would be held on Sunday to chalk out a line of action...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/lhc-asks-doctors-to-end-strike

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US designates Afghanistan as major non-Nato ally
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KABUL, July 7: The US designation on Saturday of Afghanistan as its newest "major non-Nato ally" amounts to a political statement of support for the country's long-term stability and solidifies close defence cooperation after American combat troops withdraw in 2014.

"We see this as a powerful commitment to Afghanistan's future," US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at a news conference during a brief stop in the Afghan capital...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/us-designates-afghanistan-as-major-non-nato-ally

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'SC's contempt powers cannot be taken away'
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, July 7: An amendment to clean the Constitution of the muddles left by military ruler Gen Ziaul Haq, especially about regulating lawmakers by incorporating a set of disqualifications for them, will be a far better option for the government than bringing an altogether new law on contempt, legal experts believe.

"The proposed law to repeal the older Contempt of Court Ordinance 2003 will only add more discontent to an already murky political environment in the country," commented advocate Waqar Rana, the mover of a petition by PTI chief Imran Khan challenging the May 24 ruling of National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza which had saved former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from disqualification...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/scs-contempt-powers-cannot-be-taken-away

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More relics, artefacts seized in police raid
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Dawn Report
KARACHI, July 7: Police on Saturday seized more Gandhara civilisation artefacts and relics hidden in a godown in Korangi and officials said one of them could be the 'biggest and tallest' sculpture ever found in the country.

According to an official, police raided a residential-cum-commercial building in Korangi on the basis of initial findings of an investigation conducted on Friday after a large number of artefacts were seized during search of a trailer-mounted container. Police had also arrested two people...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/more-relics-artefacts-seized-in-police-raid

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Libyans in first vote after Qadhafi's ouster
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TRIPOLI, July 7: Eager voters cast their ballots on Saturday in Libya's first free national elections in decades after the ouster of Muammar Qadhafi, despite protesters disrupting some polling in the restive east.

In Tripoli, voting began with queues of people keen to elect the General National Congress, which will be at the helm of the country for a transition period...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/libyans-in-first-vote-after-qadhafis-ouster

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Eight coalminers kidnapped
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QUETTA, July 7: Eight coalmine workers were kidnapped from Marwar area in Balochistan on Saturday, Levies sources said.

"Eight coalminers were working in a coalmine in Marwar when they were taken away by unidentified armed men to some unknown location," a Levies official said...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/eight-coalminers-kidnapped

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Floods overwhelm Russian region; 99 die
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MOSCOW, July 7: Torrential rains dropped nearly a foot of water in the Black Sea region of southern Russia overnight, unleashing intense flooding that killed 99 people and forced many to scramble out of their beds for refuge in trees and on roofs, officials said on Saturday.

Many people were asleep when the flooding struck the Krasnodar region, and the water rushed into the area around the hard-hit town of Krimsk with such speed and volume that rumours emerged that local officials had opened a nearby water reservoir...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/floods-overwhelm-russian-region-99-die

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Indian soldier killed
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SRINAGAR, July 7: Militants in occupied Kashmir fired on a group of Indian soldiers and killed one just south of Srinagar, police said.

It was the second such attack in the area in recent days...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/08/indian-soldier-killed


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