DINA for the issue of August 02, 2011
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August 02 2011 Tuesday Ramazan 1, 1432
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August 02 2011 Tuesday Ramazan 1, 1432
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Twenty-three lives lost as Karachi bleeds again
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By S. Raza Hassan
KARACHI, Aug 1: Nearly two dozen people were on Monday shot dead, several others wounded and around 90 vehicles and some tea shops set ablaze in gun and arson attacks in different parts of the city, causing the Sindh home minister to approach the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Awami National Party to seek their support for what is being described as an indiscriminate action against culprits.
The strife-hit areas of the city witnessed 23 killings on the first day of the month, surpassing the daily average death toll of July during which a total of 318 people, including a few lawyers, had been killed...
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In its rulings SC consciously avoided confrontation
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By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced in the National Assembly on Monday that Sohail Ahmed, who was removed from the post of establishment secretary and made 'officer on special duty', had been appointed as secretary of the narcotics control division.
The Supreme Court had on Friday ordered the government to appoint Sohail Ahmed to a post — any post —within a week...
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Govt at peace with judiciary, hard on PML-N
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani moved both by action and word on Monday to see his government at peace with an assertive Supreme Court, but was hard on the opposition PML-N, indirectly accusing it in the National Assembly of seeking power through the backdoor.
"There can be no clash between the judiciary and (this) parliament," he said in a speech to the lower house at the start of its Ramazan session, rejecting as "wrong" what had been a widespread perception for weeks of a possible government-judiciary clash over appointments and transfers of investigation officers in a couple of corruption probes...
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Call for well-defined terms of cooperation with US
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: With their bilateral relations teetering on the brink of a breakdown because of a strategic disconnect in the fight against terrorism, Pakistan on Monday said it wanted to have clearly spelt out terms of cooperation with the United States.
"In the absence of well-defined and documented terms of engagement, wrong plugs may be pulled at the wrong time by any side that could undermine the bilateral relations," President Asif Ali Zardari told US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman, who is visiting Islamabad for the fourth trilateral meeting of officials from the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan...
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Ramazan begins
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KARACHI, Aug 1: The Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee announced on Monday the Ramazan moon had been sighted, meaning that the holy month would begin on Tuesday (Aug 2).
The announcement was made by Mufti Muneebur Rehman, chairman of the committee, after a meeting at the Met Office here...
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Drone kills 4 in Waziristan
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By Silab Mehsud
LADHA, Aug 1: Four militants were killed and two others injured when a US drone targeted a car in Nargosa area of South Waziristan on Monday, sources said.
Two missiles fired by the unmanned aircraft hit the moving car, some 18km west of Wana, the administrative headquarters of South Waziristan. The sources said that the militants killed belonged to Punjab. They were associated with Maulvi Nazir, a militant 'commander'...
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China blames terrorists trained in Pakistan for violence
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KASHGAR (China), Aug 1: China on Monday blamed Muslim separatist terrorists trained in Pakistan for an outbreak of deadly violence and imposed heavy security in a bid to prevent further unrest.
Nineteen people were killed in two incidents in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar over the weekend in the latest wave of violence to hit the Xinjiang region, home to a mainly Muslim Uighur minority...
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PML-N sets up panel on new provinces
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif constituted on Monday a 15-member party committee to formulate suggestions relating to demand for new provinces.
The committee headed by Senator Raja Zafarul Haq and comprising senior members and legislators from all the provinces was set up by Mr Sharif at a meeting of the PML-N parliamentary group...
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PPP to table resolution in Punjab Assembly
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By Zulqernain Tahir
LAHORE, Aug 1: The Pakistan People's Party has decided to table a resolution in the Punjab assembly next month seeking creation of a new province in the south of Punjab.
"We have taken all MPAs – PPP, PML-N and PML-Q – belonging to the south and adjacent Seraiki-speaking districts on board to present the resolution in the Punjab Assembly after Ramazan," PPP lawmaker Nazim Hussain Shah, who is convener of the south Punjab province movement, told Dawn on Monday...
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Full support to Beijing pledged
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ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Pakistan said on Monday it would continue to extend its full cooperation and support to China against the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (Etim) group. Answering a question about the incidents of violence in Kashgar, the Foreign Office spokesperson said that all incidents of terrorism were deplorable.
She said Pakistan was fully confident that the patriotic people of Xinjiang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, particularly Kashgar, and the Chinese government would succeed in frustrating evil designs of the terrorists, extremists and separatists, who constitute an evil force...—APP
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Seven Nato tankers torched
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By Mansoor Mirani
KHAIRPUR, Aug 1: Seven tankers carrying oil for Nato forces in Afghanistan from Karachi were torched and four people injured in an armed attack on the National Highway near Babarloi on Saturday night, police said.
The drivers had parked the tankers at the roadside hotel near Karamabad and were taking rest when at least 10 armed men appeared and opened fire on the tankers. The oil tankers burst into flames. Two drivers and a waiter suffered bullet injuries. A cleaner, who was sleeping in the driver cabin of a tanker, was injured when he jumped off the vehicle after the attack...
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EU stresses faster reforms
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: The European Union pressed on Pakistan on Monday to speed up its reforms programme as the two sides agreed on a number of measures, more notably the launching of Strategic Dialogue later this year, to bolster their ties.
"The ministers looked forward to a reinforced political dialogue, at all levels, early completion of an ambitious EU–Pakistan Five-Year Engagement Plan and the launching of the Strategic Dialogue leading to the third EU-Pakistan Summit," a joint statement issued after a meeting between Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and her Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski, who visited Pakistan as a representative of Lady Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security...
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Karachi Stocks Up 63.02 Points:
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KARACHI, Aug 01: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 12253.39, up 63.02 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Aug 01: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 86.3 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Aug 01: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 86.3 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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