DINA for the issue of February 09, 2013

	Saturday 9th February 2013 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 27, 1434
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Pakistan to consult Afghans before freeing Taliban By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: Pakistan has agreed to give a formal role to Afghan High Peace Council in the release of remaining Taliban detainees. Pakistani authorities would consult High Peace Council through a new coordination mechanism being set up before setting more Taliban prisoners free...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 87.42 Points: KARACHI, Feb 08: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 17470.74, up 87.42 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Feb 08: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.9 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Under-trial Sindh policemen on field duty: SC reproaches IGP for failure to take action By Tahir Siddiqui KARACHI, Feb 8: The Supreme Court ordered the Sindh police chief on Friday to submit a report about the current postings of 400 under-trial police officials and explain why no action had been taken against them so far. “The reasons for delay in prosecution may also be clearly spelt out,” Justice Jawwad Khawaja remarked during a hearing on the Karachi killing suo motu implementation case...
SBP keeps interest rate unchanged By Shahid Iqbal KARACHI, Feb 8: The State Bank kept the policy interest rate unchanged at 9.5 per cent on Friday in the wake of rising inflation over the past two months and weakening macroeconomic conditions. Announcing the monetary policy, State Bank Governor Yaseen Anwar said the interest rate corridor had been reduced by 50 basis points to 250 from 300bps...
10 killed in Orakzai market blast By Hassan Mahmood KALAYA, Feb 8: Ten people were killed and over 30 others wounded when a powerful bomb ripped through a weekly bazaar in Ferozkhel area of Orakzai Agency on Friday, officials said. The device was planted in a pickup truck and detonated by remote control. An official of the bomb disposal squad said about 15kg of explosives had been used in the blast...
Elections 2013: survey indicates close contest By Alizeh Kohari and Saba Fatima Mirza Pakistani voters appear divided on who to vote for in the upcoming elections and which issues are most critical for the country, according to the Political Barometer, an opinion survey conducted by the Herald in partnership with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). The survey engaged 1,283 respondents in 54 districts across Pakistan...
SC admits Qadri’s plea for ECP reconstitution By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: A petition seeking reconstitution of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) filed by Dr Tahirul Qadri has been accepted for hearing by the Supreme Court. “In view of the important nature of the issues raised, touching (on) the appointment of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)) and members of the Commission, the petition along with CM Application (for stay) be fixed on February 11,” said an order issued by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday...
2 Al Qaeda men among eight killed Dawn Report LADHA/MIRAMSHAH, Feb 8: Eight militants, including two Al Qaeda members, were killed when a US drone fired two missiles into a compound of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in Bobar Ghar area on the border of South and North Waziristan tribal regions on Friday evening. Sources said the compound owned by local TTP commander Ali Mehsud had been completely destroyed...
President at new Bilawal House By Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE, Feb 8: Anticipating court’s ‘ire’ over his political activities, President Asif Ali Zardari decided against going to the Governor’s House after arriving here on Friday and drove directly to his new residence — Bilawal House — in Bahria Town. The president got cautious about using any ‘official residence’ after the government this week had given an undertaking to the Lahore High Court that the President House would not be used for political activities. Earlier, President Zardari used to stay at the Governor’s House whenever he visited Lahore...
Sectarian attack in Peshawar; lawyer dead By Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR, Feb 8: A prominent lawyer and former office-bearer of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Malik Jarrar, was shot dead in Gulbahar area here on Friday morning. A police official said the 47-year-old lawyer was taking his boys — Mohsin and Hassan — in his car to their school in Saddar. When they reached near a branch of the Meezan Bank on Gulbahar road they came under attack...
Parties scared of polls want ECP changed, says Nawaz By Abdul Aziz NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Feb 8: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that political parties calling for reconstitution of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) were running away from elections as they could foresee their defeat in the polls. He was speaking at a public meeting in Kandiaro, 35km from here, in which senior PPP leader Syed Zafar Ali Shah, MNA, and his brother Dr Ahmed Ali Shah announced that they had joined PML-N...
Bill for new province tabled in Senate By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: In what the opposition rejected as a drama, the government surprised many on Friday by abruptly introducing an amended version of a bill for creation of another province in Punjab. The 24th constitutional amendment bill was neither on the agenda of the day nor rules were suspended for allowing its presentation, but the bill was moved in Senate by Law Minister Farooq H. Naek after removing an anomaly in the report of the Parliamentary Commission on New Provinces...
Dr Asim accused of maligning Ogra By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Friday hit back at the prime minister’s adviser on petroleum, Dr Asim Hussain, for his outburst against the regulator in parliament and said the adviser’s diatribe was part of a campaign aimed at condoning the inefficiencies and unreasonable losses of the gas utilities. Dr Asim had criticised Ogra in the National Assembly on Thursday and requested parliamentarians to help abolish the ‘redundant’ regulator, otherwise the country would become bankrupt...
LHC rejected IB secret fund reference in 1994, SC told By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: The Lahore High Court informed the Supreme Court on Friday that a reference against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s decision to increase secret service funds of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and then withdraw it, between 1988 and 1990, had been rejected by one of its benches in 1994. The information was provided by the LHC registrar in an envelope which was opened in the court...
NA session over in five minutes By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: The National Assembly’s Friday session was over in five minutes. Soon after recitation of the Holy Quran, Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi, who was presiding over the session, ordered beginning of question hour but Sheerin Arshad Khan of PML-N pointed out lack of quorum...
Court system to regulate drones under study: US Senator By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Feb 8: While US senators consider setting up a special court system to regulate drone strikes, a senior Obama administration official tells a senate panel that the strikes are legal and will continue. Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday afternoon that people in Al Qaeda-infested areas had ‘welcomed’ drone strikes on terrorist leaders...
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