DINA for the issue of October, 29 2011

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October 29, 2011 Saturday Zilhaj 01, 1432
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PML-N declares war on Zardari: 'Resign or face public wrath'
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By Intikhab Hanif
LAHORE, Oct 28: The Pakistan Muslim League-N threw down the gauntlet to President Asif Zardari on Friday: tender resignation or face the lynch mob. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took acerbity and fiery rhetoric to its limits in his denunciation of the president, winning thunderous ovation from a charged crowd.

Mr Shahbaz laced his speech with all ingredients needed for firing up a public meeting: accusations of sleaze, insults, poetry and talk of the gallows...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/pml-n-declares-war-on-zardari-resign-or-face-public-wrath.html


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PM speaks of nation's resilience at summit
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PERTH, Oct 28: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday called upon the Commonwealth to seek inspiration from the "resilience" of the Pakistani nation for fighting challenges in a rapidly changing world.

Addressing the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting here, he said: "Building a resilient Commonwealth is necessary if we are to get to grips with numerous challenges we are facing as individual states, as well as collectively, on the global plane."..

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/pm-speaks-of-nations-resilience-at-summit.html


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Suo motu notice taken of railway affairs: Officers' salary to be
seized if pensioners not paid: SC
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: The Supreme Court observed on Friday that Pakistan Railways treated its "pensioners as beggars" and warned that salary cheques of officers would be seized if they failed to make payment to pensioners in time. It also ordered the organisation to open bank accounts of pensioners in branches near their homes.

"Non-payment to pensioners is a violation of human rights while on the other hand railways property is being sold out," Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry observed...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/suo-motu-notice-taken-of-railway-affairs-officers-salary-to-be-seized-if-pensioners-not-paid-sc.html


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13 Taliban killed in S. Waziristan drone attack
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PESHAWAR, Oct 28: Thirteen Taliban militants were killed in a suspected US drone attack in South Waziristan this week, security officials and tribal sources said on Friday.

Security sources said there was strong evidence that Taj Gul Mehsud, a Taliban commander and close aide to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Hakimullah Mehsud, was among the victims in the attack on Wednesday...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/13-taliban-killed-in-s-waziristan-drone-attack.html


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Police officer on Taliban hit-list killed in Nowshera bombing
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By Suhail Kakakhel
NOWSHERA, Oct 28: A police officer and his driver were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near his vehicle on Nowshera-Mardan Road on Friday, official sources said.

Syed Ajmir Shah, the SHO of Risalpur police station, achieved fame a couple of years ago for anti-insurgent operations he carried out when he was the SHO of Akora Khattak police station. He was given the presidential award in recognition of his services. ..

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/police-officer-on-taliban-hit-list-killed-in-nowshera-bombing.html


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Eidul Azha on Nov 7
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: The Zilhaj moon was sighted in the country on Friday and Eidul Azha would fall on Nov 7 (Monday), Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman announced on Friday.

Mufti Muneeb said the committee had taken the decision after reviewing reports from different parts of the country about sighting of the moon.—APP..

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/eidul-azha-on-nov-7.html


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Jirga seeks action by chief justice: Imran condemns drone attacks
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By Ahmad Hassan
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said on Friday that military operations and drone attacks in tribal areas were serving to aggravate the security problems being faced by the country.

Addressing a grand jirga and protest rally against the US drone attacks, he reiterated that talks with Taliban should be given a chance, as envisaged in a resolution unanimously adopted by an All-Party Conference (APC) on Sept 30...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/jirga-seeks-action-by-chief-justice-imran-condemns-drone-attacks.html


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N-capable Hatf VII missile test-fired
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Pakistan on Friday successfully tested nuclear-capable Hatf VII (Babur) cruise missile from a newly developed missile launch vehicle.

In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said: "Pakistan today (Friday) conducted a successful test-fire of the multi-tube, indigenously-developed Cruise Missile Hatf VII (Babur)."..

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/n-capable-hatf-vii-missile-test-fired.html


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Ex-minister to defend RPP contracts in SC
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Former water and power minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, a vociferous proponent of rental power projects (RPPs), will appear before the Supreme Court on Monday to defend allegations of corruption in the award of contracts to different companies.

Additional Water and Power Secretary Hamid Ali Khan told a two-judge bench on Friday that the former minister would appear before the court with his legal counsel to answer the corruption charges which had cost him his ministry, especially after he failed to meet the target of ending loadshedding. Could Mr Ashraf, who had executed the RPP projects, appear before the court since Minister for Housing Faisal Saleh Hayat and PML-N legislator Khwaja Asif had come up with serious charges of corruption in the award of contracts, the court asked the counsel for Wapda...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/ex-minister-to-defend-rpp-contracts-in-sc-2.html


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Britain, 15 C'wealth states to scrap law on male succession
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PERTH, Oct 28: Commonwealth nations on Friday agreed to scrap centuries-old laws barring first-born daughters or anyone married to a Roman Catholic from inheriting the British throne.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said the agreement, unanimously backed by all 16 nations where Queen Elizabeth II is head of state, represented a 'historic moment' for the monarchy...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/britain-15-cwealth-states-to-scrap-law-on-male-succession.html


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Turkish boy survives five days under rubble
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ERCIS (Turkey), Oct 28: A 13-year-old boy was pulled from a collapsed building without injury on Friday, five days after Turkey's powerful earthquake struck, and state-run TV said he survived by drinking rain water that seeped through cracks in the wreckage around him.

The boy, Ferhat Tokay, used shoes as a pillow and peered through a tiny gap in the wreckage to see when it was day or night outside, his uncle said...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/turkish-boy-survives-five-days-under-rubble.html


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Warrants for Musharraf, Aziz in Bugti case
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By Amanullah Kasi
QUETTA, Oct 28: A judicial magistrate has issued the arrest warrants for former president Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz in the Akbar Bugti murder case.

Magistrate Faisal Hameed accepted on Friday a written request by the crimes branch to issue the arrest warrants for both the accused nominated in the FIR lodged with Dera Bugti police...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/warrants-for-musharraf-aziz-in-bugti-case.html

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Two brothers killed in rocket attack
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By Abdul Sami Paracha
KOHAT, Oct 28: Two brothers were killed when militants fired a rocket at a vehicle in remote Shindhand area of Kohat on Friday.

According to an official, the vehicle bringing passengers from the semi-autonomous tribal area was hit by a rocket fired from nearby mountains. The two brothers, identified as Hazrat Omer and Bilal, died on the spot...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/two-brothers-killed-in-rocket-attack.html


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Pak safe havens, Karzai govt ineptness worry Pentagon
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, Oct 28: Militant safe havens in Pakistan and the Karzai government's incapacities pose a significant threat to peace in Afghanistan, says a Pentagon report released on Friday as US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned American lawmakers "not to undercut our progress" in the region.

Also on Friday, a top Nato commander, Admiral James G. Stavridis, wrote in a message to reporters that the "insurgents' ability to move across the porous Pakistan-Afghan border continues to present a serious challenge to our efforts"...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/29/pak-safe-havens-karzai-govt-ineptness-worry-pentagon.html


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Karachi Stocks Up 288.59 Points:
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KARACHI, Oct 28: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 11572.08, up 288.59 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Oct 28: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 87 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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