DINA for the issue of July 21, 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 21, 2012 Saturday Ramazan 1, 1433
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Wrongdoing alleged in load management
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, July 20: Some parliamentarians on Friday accused power utilities of indulging in wrongdoing in the management of loadshedding.

As the National Assembly's standing committee on water and power deliberated on the payment of bribe to officials of power companies to reduce or increase the duration of loadshedding, Water and Power Secretary Zafar Mahmood reiterated the government's decision to exempt all domestic consumers from loadshedding during Sahr and Iftar...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/21/mps-accuse-power-utilities-of-graft-wrongdoing-alleged-in-load-management/


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Close contest in Multan exposes PPP weak points
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By Shakeel Ahmed
MULTAN, July 20: It is time for the Gilanis to look back on the election trail.

Although PPP candidate Abdul Qadir Gilani retained the seat vacated by his father, former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in a by-election for NA-151 on Thursday, the tough time given to the party by independent candidate Shaukat Bosan exposes many of its weak points...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/21/close-contest-in-multan-exposes-ppp-weak-points/


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Anti-polio doctor shot dead in Karachi
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By S. Raza Hassan
KARACHI, July 20: A doctor associated with the polio prevention campaign of World Health Organisation was gunned down in the city's Al-Asif Square area on Friday night.

On July 17, Dr Fosten Dido, a foreign doctor working for the WHO and associated with the immunisation work, was shot at and wounded in the same area...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/21/anti-polio-doctor-shot-dead-in-karachi/


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Countrywide fasting begins on same day, after years
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KARACHI, July 20: The Ramazan moon was sighted on Friday heralding the beginning of the fasting month.

A meeting of the Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee, presided over by its Chairman Mufti Munibur Rehman, made the announcement about the sighting of the moon...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/21/countrywide-fasting-begins-on-same-day-after-years/


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Gandhara relic stolen from police station
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By Idrees Bakhtiar
KARACHI, July 20: The illegally excavated Gandhara-era artefacts recovered by police in Karachi on July 6 are dumped in a compound of a police station in Landhi and so carelessly guarded that anyone can easily walk away with them.

A man who approached this reporter on Friday and wished to remain anonymous was able to remove — unnoticed and unchecked — the head of a statue from among the large number of 2,000-year-old relics...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/21/gandhara-relic-stolen-from-police-station/


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Lynching of a poor woman in Punjab: Court warns IG of action if culprits not arrested
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, July 20: Distressed by the news of lynching of a poor woman in Punjab, the Supreme Court summoned on Friday a complete record of the crime and warned the provincial police chief of strict action if culprits were not arrested.

A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S. Khwaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain had taken notice of the stoning to death of the woman at Chak 15 in Kacha Koh, about 12km from Khanewal...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/21/lynching-of-a-poor-woman-in-punjab-court-warns-ig-of-action-if-culprits-not-arrested/


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N-scientist seeks removal of name from ECL
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ISLAMABAD, July 20: The Supreme Court issued on Friday notices to the director general of Inter Services Intelligence and the federal government on an appeal filed by a nuclear scientist seeking removal of his name from the exit control list (ECL).

A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S. Khwaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain had taken up Dr Nazeer Ahmed's appeal against a decision of the Islamabad High Court which had dismissed his pleadings...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/21/n-scientist-seeks-removal-of-name-from-ecl/


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Malik files papers for Senate
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KARACHI, July 20: Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik submitted on Friday nomination papers for a Senate seat from Sindh.

The seat had fallen vacant when Mr Malik resigned from the upper house of parliament over the issue of dual nationality...

http://dawn.com/2012/07/21/malik-files-papers-for-senate/


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Karachi Stocks Down 7.43 Points:
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KARACHI, July 20: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 14560.78, down 7.43 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, July 20: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95.2 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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