DINA for the issue of October 05, 2011
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October 05, 2011 Wednesday Ziqa'ad 6, 1432
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October 05, 2011 Wednesday Ziqa'ad 6, 1432
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PML-Q rings alarm bells for PPP
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: In a dramatic political development, the Pakistan Muslim League-Q threatened on Tuesday to part ways with the beleaguered PPP-led ruling coalition and all its ministers and advisers handed over their resignations to party chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, authorising him to make a final decision after meeting President Asif Ali Zardari.
At a meeting of the PML-Q parliamentary party, there was a consensus that it was time to leave the government in the wake of the agitation over the power crisis, sources said...
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Another sectarian attack near Quetta
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, Oct 4: Fourteen people, among them 12 members of the Shia Hazara community, were gunned down on the outskirts of Quetta on Tuesday. The victims were going to Hazar Ganji area from Akhtarabad in a bus when the assailants riding a pick-up opened indiscriminate fire.
The bus was carrying about 30 passengers...
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Loadshedding contained, claims minister
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By Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: While announcing measures to reduce loadshedding through increased power generation in the next 48 hours, the Minister for Water and Power, Syed Naveed Qamar, on Tuesday lashed out at the Punjab government for "exploiting the situation" which, he said, had caused problems for people in the province.
Mr Qamar claimed at a late-night press conference that the first target, of containing the loadshedding, had been achieved...
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Riots subside in Lahore, rage in other towns
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By Ahmad Fraz Khan
LAHORE, Oct 4: The ferocity of power riots eased in Lahore on Tuesday after the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) boosted supplies to the city, but other cities and towns in Punjab continued to suffer prolonged outages and, consequently, violence.
Lahore virtually escaped loadshedding on Tuesday as Pepco heaved a sigh of relief after fuel supplies to two major power plants -- Hubco (1,200MW) and Kapco (1,342MW) – was restored on Monday after the intervention of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani...
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Afghanistan, India sign security accord
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, Oct 4: India and Afghanistan signed a security pact here on Tuesday after assessments by both that they were targets of the ubiquitous Haqqani group of the Taliban network increasingly accused of being a cat's paw for Pakistan's military.
The pact, they said, was not directed against any country or group of countries and it follows announcement in Islamabad that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had accepted an invitation to visit Pakistan....
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Angry MPs call for resignations over Balochistan killings
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: The National Assembly was outraged across party lines on Tuesday by the killing of at least 13 people in a sectarian attack near Quetta, with some government allies demanding that the interior minister and the Balochistan chief minister resign and the federal government impose governor's rule in the troubled province.
But the main opposition party, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), reserved its more bitter attack of the day against the PPP-led coalition government over power cuts, with one party member threatening a protest outside the Presidency before staging a second walkout in as many days of its protest agitation...
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Islamabad rejects Kabul's charge on Rabbani probe
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Afghan accusations that it had refused to cooperate in the investigation into the assassination of Kabul government peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Islamabad rejects Kabul's charge on Rabbani probe
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Afghan accusations that it had refused to cooperate in the investigation into the assassination of Kabul government peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani.
"We completely reject this, (it) is not true," foreign ministry spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua said...
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Plan to raise power tariff put on hold
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: The federal government seems to have shelved a plan proposed by a cabinet committee on energy to raise electricity tariff by 12-16 per cent so as not to give ammunition to the agitation that has convulsed Punjab this week and which threatens to rage out of control after PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif called upon his party to lead the protest.
As a result of changing political scene and aggravating street protests against loadshedding, a 'special emergency meeting of the federal cabinet' scheduled for Wednesday (Oct 5) has been postponed until Oct 12, sources told Dawn...
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Karachi Stocks Up 211.85 Points:
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KARACHI, Oct 04: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 11920.10, up 211.85 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Oct 04: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 88.3 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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