DINA for the issue of October 16, 2011
----------------------------------------------------------------
D A W N I n t e r n e t N e w s A l e r t
----------------------------------------------------------------
October 16, 2011 Sunday Ziqa'ad 17, 1432
----------------------------------------------------------------
The DAWN Internet News Alert (DINA) is a free daily news-service
from Pakistan's largest English language newspaper, the Daily
DAWN.
We encourage comments & suggestions. We can be reached at:
e-mail webmaster@dawn.com
WWW http://dawn.com
fax +92(21) 35693995
snail-mail DAWN Media Group,
Haroon House, Karachi 74200, Pakistan
(c) Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt.) Ltd., Pakistan - 2011
The link at the end of each extract can be used to access the
complete story on DAWN - the Internet Edition.
D A W N I n t e r n e t N e w s A l e r t
----------------------------------------------------------------
October 16, 2011 Sunday Ziqa'ad 17, 1432
----------------------------------------------------------------
The DAWN Internet News Alert (DINA) is a free daily news-service
from Pakistan's largest English language newspaper, the Daily
DAWN.
We encourage comments & suggestions. We can be reached at:
e-mail webmaster@dawn.com
WWW http://dawn.com
fax +92(21) 35693995
snail-mail DAWN Media Group,
Haroon House, Karachi 74200, Pakistan
(c) Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt.) Ltd., Pakistan - 2011
The link at the end of each extract can be used to access the
complete story on DAWN - the Internet Edition.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Rome in rage against corporate greed
-----------------------------------------------------------------
ROME, Oct 15: Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons on Saturday in Rome as protesters turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot, smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles.
The protest in the Italian capital, which left dozens injured, was part of the 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrations against capitalism and austerity measures that went global on Saturday...
----------------------------------------------------------------
Two-day holiday off to bad start
----------------------------------------------------------------
By Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: Differences and confusion defined the launch of the energy conservation plan on Saturday as Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa did not implement the decision while Sindh remained undecided, business and industry fumed over the initiative and a clueless public kept wondering who is at the controls.
Although people from almost all walks of life criticised the plan, traders and industrialists were the most vocal in their rejection of the decision taken by the federal cabinet on Wednesday to overcome increasing electricity shortfall during peak hours...
----------------------------------------------------------------
Electricity supply to stations, colonies cut off: Railway employees take to streets over non-payment of salary
----------------------------------------------------------------
Dawn Report
LAHORE, Oct 15: The financial mess afflicting Pakistan Railways took yet another threatening turn on Saturday after thousands of employees took to the streets and picketed near railway tracks to voice indignation over non-payment of salary.
Many of the protesting employees not only sought payment of salary but also necessities like electricity and water. The reason: electricity supply to railway stations and employees' colonies in major cities and towns has been cut off because of non-payment of bills...
----------------------------------------------------------------
PML-N plans to step up 'go Zardari' drive
----------------------------------------------------------------
By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE, Oct 15: Raising the political temperature in the country, the Pakistan Muslim League-N has announced the next phase of what it calls "Go Zardari, Go" campaign and gave a schedule for rallies to be led by party chief Nawaz Sharif.
The party's deputy secretary-general, Ahsan Iqbal, told a press conference here on Saturday that Mr Sharif would lead demonstrations in Dera Ghazi Khan on Oct 19, in Lahore on Oct 26 and in Faisalabad on Nov 4 against loadshedding, price hike and 'massive corruption' by the federal government...
----------------------------------------------------------------
Zardari rejects objections over Bokhari
----------------------------------------------------------------
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: President Asif Ali Zardari rejected on Saturday objections raised by Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan over the nomination of Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari as chairman of the National Accountability Bureau and said the decision was "strictly in accordance with the law".
President's spokesman Farhatullah Babar released to the media on Saturday night copies of the letter sent to the opposition leader by the president...
----------------------------------------------------------------
'386 civilians died in 300 drone attacks'
---------------------------------------------------------------
By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: The attack on a compound in South Waziristan Agency on Friday night that claimed the lives of at least three suspected militants was the 300th drone attack carried out by the US in the Pakistan's tribal region, according to a report by an independent London-based group of investigative journalists.
The report released on Saturday by Bureau of Investigative Journalism has mentioned varying figures about the casualties in the attacks as it says that at least 2,318 people and a maximum of 2,912 people, the majority of them alleged militants, have been killed in these attacks...
----------------------------------------------------------------
Only 18pc of funds needed for flood relief received: UN
----------------------------------------------------------------
By Amin Ahmed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) has said that assistance to more than 8.9 million people affected by floods in Sindh and Balochistan may come to a halt in November after depletion of relief supplies by the end of the current month.
Only 18 per cent of the funding requirements have been received so far, $64.5 million of the $357 million requested in the Rapid Response Plan launched last month, Ocha said in its latest situation report on Saturday...
--------------------------------------------------------------
Story writer Mansha Yaad dies at 74
--------------------------------------------------------------
By A Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: Mansha Yaad, a prominent short story writer, playwright and critic, died of heart ailments here on Saturday. He was 74 and left behind three sons, one daughter and a widow.
He was awarded the Pride of Performance in 2004 in recognition of his invaluable contribution to literature. He also received a PTV award for his drama serial Rahain in 1988 and Waris Shah literary award of the Pakistan Academy of Letters for his collection of Punjabi short stories, Wagda Pani...
--------------------------------------------------------------
BB assassination case: Acquittal plea of two officers dismissed
--------------------------------------------------------------
By Malik Asad
RAWALPINDI, Oct 15: A court dismissed on Saturday acquittal plea of two police officers accused of failing to provide adequate security to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and destroying vital evidence.
After dismissing the plea, Anti-Terrorism Court judge Shahid Rafique directed the Federal Investigation Agency to again frame charges against the accused and adjourned the hearing till Oct 22...
----------------------------------------------------------------
'Blind Sheikh' son died in drone attack, say Taliban
----------------------------------------------------------------
PESHAWAR, Oct 15: One of the militants killed in a drone strike in Pakistan on Friday was the son of a blind Egyptian cleric serving a life sentence in the United States for plotting to attack New York City landmarks, an Afghan Taliban commander said.
The US drone attack killed Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman, son of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who was jailed in the United States in 1995, and also had a long history of violent opposition to the Egyptian government. ..
----------------------------------------------------------------
Riyadh asks Ban to refer murder plot to UN council
----------------------------------------------------------------
RIYADH, Oct 15: Saudi Arabia has asked UN chief Ban Ki-moon to inform the Security Council of the 'heinous conspiracy' to kill its envoy to Washington in an alleged Iranian plot, SPA state news agency said on Saturday.
"The Saudi permanent mission to the United Nations in New York has ...formally requested the UN secretary general to inform the Security Council of the heinous conspiracy to assassinate the Saudi ambassador," it said...
----------------------------------------------------------------
Khamenei terms US accusation absurd
----------------------------------------------------------------
TEHRAN, Oct 15: Iran on Saturday hardened its denial of involvement in an alleged assassination plot in Washington, with its supreme leader slamming the US accusations as 'absurd' and without effect.
The remarks — the first direct response by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — came as Iran's government again urged Saudi Arabia to be wary over the plot claims that Iranian officials had tried to contract a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington...
----------------------------------------------------------------
Court summons SHO for refusing to book Mirza
----------------------------------------------------------------
By Ishaq Tanoli
KARACHI, Oct 15: A sessions court summoned on Saturday the SHO of Gulberg police station on a plea seeking registration of a case against Sindh's former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza under the blasphemy law.
Rauf Ahmed Siddiqui of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) alleged in the application moved under Section 22-A of the Criminal Procedure Code that Dr Mirza while addressing a press conference on Oct 9 had made derogatory remarks against the Prophet (peace be upon him)...
----------------------------------------------------------------
10 killed in Orakzai air strike
----------------------------------------------------------------
By Our Correspondent
KALAYA, Oct 15: Warplanes bombed hideouts in the lower tehsil of Orakzai Agency on Saturday, killing 10 suspected militants, officials claimed.
Several hideouts on hilltops in Baizotkhel and Mistrikhel areas were destroyed in the air strike, an official said, adding that 10 militants were killed and four others injured...
----------------------------------------------------------------
Drones kill three suspected militants in S. Waziristan
----------------------------------------------------------------
By Sailab Mehsud
LADDAH, Oct 15: In the fourth attack in two days in South and North Waziristan, missiles fired by US drones hit a compound in the Bagher area on Friday night, killing at least three suspected militants.
An official of the local administration said on Saturday that nine missiles hit the compound in South Waziristan, owned by militant leader Maulvi Nazir who is considered to be a "good Talib"...
----------------------------------------------------------------
Protesters wreck Yemen gas pipeline after killing of Awlaki's son
----------------------------------------------------------------
SANAA, Oct 15: Security forces shot dead at least 12 people protesting against the rule of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sanaa on Saturday and Al Qaeda insurgents blew up a pipeline, halting the country's gas exports.
Yemeni officials said the attack on France's Total gas pipeline was in retaliation for the killing of the head of the media department of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in an air raid on militant outposts in Yemen...
http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/16/protesters-wreck-yemen-gas-pipeline-after-killing-of-awlakis-son.html
--------------------------------------------------------------
*DINA*DINA*DINA*DINA*DINA*DINA*DINA*DINA*DINA*DINA*DINA*DINA*
--------------------------------------------------------------
To subscribe or unsubscribe to this mailing list, please fill the form located at: http://www.dawn.com/alerts
--------------------------------------------------------------
0 comments:
Post a Comment