DINA for the issue of October 23, 2011
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October 23, 2011 Sunday Ziqa'ad 24, 1432
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October 23, 2011 Sunday Ziqa'ad 24, 1432
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Pakistan ready to arrange talks with Taliban, US told
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By Iftikhar A Khan
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: Pakistan has told the United States it is ready to facilitate its talks with the Taliban, but cannot become a guarantor to the negotiating process, a senior security official told Dawn on Saturday.
"Pakistan must not be blamed in case of failure of attempts (by US) for reconciliation with the Taliban as it does not spoon-feed them," the official remarked...
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S. Arabia's crown prince dies
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RIYADH, Oct 22: Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz has died, the palace announced on Saturday, leaving his brother Prince Nayef the likely successor to ailing King Abdullah.
The crown prince, aged 80 according to government records, served as the kingdom's defence minister for nearly five decades and had been in the United States since mid-June for medical treatment. He was operated on in July...
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Punjab cancels results after student protest
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By Mansoor Malik
LAHORE, Oct 22: Students' violent protests against the messed-up intermediate Part-I results compelled the Punjab government to cancel the results and come out with an assurance that the results would be revised and declared again within 45 days.
The provincial government cancelled the intermediate Part-I annual examination results for 2011 declared by all eight education boards on Oct 17. In Lahore alone 75, 267 candidates were declared unsuccessful. A student of the Government College University had committed suicide after his poor result...
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Rs4bn bailout package for Railway
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By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: The government has come out with another bailout package of Rs 4 billion for the Pakistan Railways in an attempt to revive the ailing organisation.
The decision was approved by the Central Development Working party (CDWP) at its meeting on Friday with an emphasis that the Railways should augment its freight operation, which had come to a halt due to the miserable financial plight of the department, a member told Dawn...
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Clinton visit eases US-Pakistan misgivings
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By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct 22: Pakistan's army chief has a point when he says that Afghanistan has to deal with its problems, instead of blaming Islamabad for them, says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Her comments, in an interview to Fox News, follow US media reports that the Obama administration is warming up to Islamabad's idea for holding direct talks with Fata-based Afghan militants...
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Commanders rule out Qadhafi's post-mortem
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MISRATA, Oct 22: Military commanders in the Libyan city of Misrata said on Saturday that no post-mortem would be carried out on the body of Muammar Qadhafi despite concerns over how the toppled dictator died.
Interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said an investigation was being conducted into the circumstances of Qadhafi's killing following his capture, bloodied but still alive, during the fall of his hometown Sirte on Thursday, after several foreign governments and human rights watchdogs posed questions...
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Probe into Kashmir rapes urged
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SRINAGAR, Oct 22: A government commission in Indian-held Kashmir has called for a fresh probe into the alleged mass rapes in two villages by Indian army personnel 20 years ago, a report said on Saturday.
Kashmir's State Human Rights Commission has recommended that the government set up a special team to reinvestigate the alleged gang-rape of at least 31 women by Indian army personnel in 1991. The women from the villages of Kunan and Poshpora in Kupwara district had claimed that they had been raped by soldiers during the night of February 23-24 in 1991.—AFP..
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Aftab Sultan to head IB
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By Muhammad Faisal Ali
LAHORE, Oct 22: After lengthy deliberations to forge a consensus over the appointment of the new Intelligence Bureau chief from among four senior police officers, the federal government finally chose Additional IG Aftab Sultan as the bureau's new director general on Saturday.
As the prime minister finalised the name of Mr Sultan, who was working as Additional IG Welfare and Finance, Punjab, even after getting promotion to the rank of BS-22, a notification was issued by the Establishment Division...
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A childhood hero falls
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By Asha'ar Rehman
ON that spring day in February 1974, we, a group of boys living off Regal chowk in Lahore, simply gravitated to the spot in front of the Punjab Assembly. We could instinctively tell that we were in the middle of something big and important.
The Lahoris were indeed privileged to be witness to the unfolding of an Islamic summit conference but that significance was lost on our young minds. But we were thrilled at having a glimpse of the heroes we had heard our elders talk about in laudatory terms...
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Karzai says he'll back Pakistan in conflict with US
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview to a Pakistani TV channel broadcast on Saturday.
The remarks were in sharp contrast to recent tension between the two neighbours...
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MQM to join AJK cabinet
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By Our Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 22: A member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly will soon be inducted into the AJK cabinet, said a statement issued by the Governor's House here on Saturday.
AJK President Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob Khan and Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majid called Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan to inform him that one of MQM's members in the Legislative Assembly would soon be invited to join the cabinet...
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