DINA for the issue of October 22, 2011
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October 22, 2011 Saturday Ziqa'ad 23, 1432
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October 22, 2011 Saturday Ziqa'ad 23, 1432
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Pakistan urged to play role of peacemaker: Clinton demands action in 'days and weeks'
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By Iftikhar A. Khan
ISLAMABAD, Oct 21: In a rather bitter-sweet message, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Islamabad on Friday to start dismantling militant safe havens along the Afghan border within "days and weeks", but said the United States respected Pakistan's sovereignty and would not undertake any unilateral action against terrorists on its soil.
During an extensive interaction with media personnel and members of civil society, she urged Pakistan to do more to nudge and push the Taliban towards the negotiating table. Pakistan-US ties were important and they needed each other, she added...
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CJ to set up larger bench on issues of Balochistan
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, Oct 21: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said he will soon constitute a larger bench on unrest and violation of fundamental human rights in Balochistan.
He was addressing a conference on environmental laws organised by the Balochistan High Court and the High Court Bar Association here on Friday...
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Call for probe into death of Qadhafi
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NEW YORK / MISRATA, Oct 21: The United Nations and human rights groups called on Friday for a full investigation into the death of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi and voiced concerns that he may have been executed, a war crime under international law. Several countries, including the United States and Russia, also raised questions over the manner in which the strongman was killed.
Call for probe into death of Qadhafi
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NEW YORK / MISRATA, Oct 21: The United Nations and human rights groups called on Friday for a full investigation into the death of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi and voiced concerns that he may have been executed, a war crime under international law. Several countries, including the United States and Russia, also raised questions over the manner in which the strongman was killed.
Qadhafi's burial had been planned for Friday but Libya's interim government the National Transitional Council (NTC) delayed it, saying the circumstances of his death still had to be determined...
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US likened to mother-in-law
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 21: Washington's troubled relationship with Islamabad has triggered plenty of heartburn for US officials, but rarely side-splitting laughter.
That changed on Friday when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton erupted in amusement during a town hall meeting in Islamabad when a participant described the US as Pakistan's impossible to please mother-in-law...
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Moonis Elahi acquitted, freed
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By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh
LAHORE, Oct 21: PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi was released here on Friday after he had been acquitted by a district and sessions judge in the National Insurance Company (NICL) scam.
Accepting Mr Elahi's application for acquittal, Judge Mujahid Mustaqeem said the prosecution had failed to prove charges of money-laundering against him...
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Pakistan wins Security Council seat
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By Masood Haider
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 21: Pakistan was elected on Friday to the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member for two years (2012-2013).
It secured 129 votes in the 193-member General Assembly and will replace Lebanon currently holding the Asian seat...
http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/22/pakistan-wins-security-council-seat.html
http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/22/pakistan-wins-security-council-seat.html
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Sindh police chief to head IB
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By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, Oct 21: The government decided on Friday to appoint Sindh police chief Wajid Durrani as the director general of Intelligence Bureau (IB).
The other officer considered for the post, Traffic Police Additional Inspector General Mushtaq Shah, also had a good deal as he will be the new Sindh IG...
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'Inefficient' policing by Levies: Taliban regrouping in Balochistan, say intelligence reports
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, Oct 21: At least two intelligence agencies are reported to have alerted the federal government about a reorganisation of Taliban and other militant organisations in Balochistan after the replacement of police with Levies force.
Reliable sources told Dawn on Friday that in their separate reports the two agencies had requested the prime minister and the cabinet division to intervene and persuade the provincial political leadership not to waste gains achieved through conversion of B-areas into A-areas...
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Membership of 222 lawmakers suspended
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Oct 21: The Election Commission suspended on Friday the membership of 222 legislators, about a dozen members of the federal cabinet among them, for their failure to submit statements of their assets and liabilities even three weeks after the specified date.
A notification issued on Friday, six days after the expiry of the deadline, suspended the membership of 103 members of the National Assembly, 13 senators, 49 members of Punjab Assembly, 28 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 23 of Sindh and six of Balochistan...
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Clinton in Tajikistan to discuss drugs, militancy
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DUSHANBE, Oct 21: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived here on Friday on her first official visit to the ex-Soviet nation of Tajikistan for talks on the danger of drugs and militancy facing the region.
Clinton in Tajikistan to discuss drugs, militancy
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DUSHANBE, Oct 21: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived here on Friday on her first official visit to the ex-Soviet nation of Tajikistan for talks on the danger of drugs and militancy facing the region.
Her visit and expected trip on Saturday to Uzbekistan extend a tour that most recently took her to Kabul and Islamabad – focal points of Washington's strategy to wind down its 10-year war in Afghanistan ahead of elections next year...
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Companies told to reduce line losses: Stern action against power thieves urged
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By A Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Oct 21: Water and Power Minister Syed Naveed Qamar has assured the executives of nine electricity distribution companies that there will be no large-scale overhauling in their management and that reforms are being carried out to introduce corporate governance in the power sector.
He told them at a meeting here on Friday that reforms were meant to improve the efficiency of companies...
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Emergency laws in Kashmir being partially withdrawn
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SRINAGAR, Oct 21: Tough emergency laws imposed in Indian-held Kashmir in 1990 that allow security forces to act with near-impunity are to be partially withdrawn, the region's chief minister announced on Friday.
It marks a significant step in the process of normalising Kashmir, a Muslim-majority region divided between India and Pakistan that has sparked two of the three major wars between the two countries...
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Maoist ambush kills six Indian policemen
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RAIPUR (India), Oct 21: Suspected Maoist guerillas ambushed a police patrol and shot dead six officers on Friday in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a hotspot of left-wing extremism, officials said.
Five more were injured in the attack in a forest in Bastar district, 350km south of the state capital Raipur, said the local head of police anti-Maoist operations, Ramniwas...
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Karachi Stocks Down 122.59 Points:
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KARACHI, Oct 21: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 11562.56, down 122.59 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Oct 21: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 87.9 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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