DINA for the issue of October 30, 2011

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October 30, 2011 Sunday Zilhaj 02, 1432
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Yasin Azad elected SCBA president
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By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE, Oct 29: Yasin Azad was elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Saturday for 2011-12 after defeating Rashid A. Razvi of the Hamid Khan-led professional group by 93 votes.

Mr Azad was supported by the SCBA's outgoing president, Asma Jahangir, and the lawyers' group, led by Punjab Governor Latif Khosa, PPP senator Babar Awan and federal Law Secretary Pir Masood Chishti...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/yasin-azad-elected-scba-president.html

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Deadliest attack kills 13 US troops in Kabul
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KABUL, Oct 29: A suicide car bomber killed 13 American troops in Kabul on Saturday in the deadliest single ground attack against the Nato-led force in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.

"We can confirm that 13 International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) members have died," said an Isaf spokesman in the Afghan capital...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/deadliest-attack-kills-13-us-troops-in-kabul.html

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US has no permission for drone strikes: Gilani
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PERTH, Oct 29: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani categorically said on Saturday that no permission had been granted to the United States to launch drone attacks on targets inside Pakistan.

"There is no such permission," he told a large group of Pakistani expatriates...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/us-has-no-permission-for-drone-strikes-gilani.html

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Return of Afghan DPs slows down
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By Amin Ahmed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: The number of Afghan refugees returning home from Pakistan declined sharply this year, according to figures released by the UN refugee agency on Saturday.

The UNHCR cited the lack of livelihood opportunities and shelter and a heightened sense of insecurity as the main reasons behind the trend...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/return-of-afghan-dps-slows-down.html

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PIA woes cause torment to 1,000 Haj pilgrims
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By Faisal Ali
LAHORE, Oct 29: The ills afflicting the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) were on full display here on Saturday after two of its flights for Jeddah were delayed on 'technical' grounds while an engine of a plane returning from Saudi Arabia caught fire during landing at the Allama Iqbal Airport.

About 1,000 passengers were stranded at the Haj terminal for several hours...
http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/pia-woes-cause-torment-to-1000-haj-pilgrims.html

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PM seeks help for Afghan repatriation
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PERTH, Oct 29: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday urged the world community to help Pakistan repatriate three million Afghan refugees, stop illegal cross-border movement and prevent spread of the crippling polio disease.

"They need to go back... the relief centres have to be in Afghanistan," he said at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/pm-seeks-help-for-afghan-repatriation.html

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Amendment to security law in held Kashmir approved
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SRINAGAR, Oct 29: The government of Indian-held Kashmir has approved amendments to a tough law that allows detention of people without trial for two years and the arrest of youths as young as 16, an official said on Saturday.

"The state cabinet has approved an ordinance to do away with some harsher clauses of the Public Safety Act (PSA)," a government official said on condition of anonymity...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/amendment-to-security-law-in-held-kashmir-approved.html

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Homework done to oust govt before January: PML-N
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has vowed to dislodge the PPP-led government by January. The party believes that even if it does not succeed in doing so its efforts would not go to waste because these could serve as a platform to launch a final push before the next elections, whenever they are held.

Two key PML-N office-bearers said the party had done its homework before announcing its plan to launch the anti-government movement, but said they could not disclose its details at this stage...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/homework-done-to-oust-govt-before-january-pml-n.html

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Altaf smells designs against democracy
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By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 29: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said on Saturday that conspiracies were being hatched to topple the elected government and vowed that his party would protect the democratic process in the country.

Addressing a workers' convention by phone from London, Mr Hussain said it was the democratic right of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz to lodge a protest against or criticise the policies of President Asif Ali Zardari but while doing so one should demonstrate respect for the office of the president and refrain from using derogatory language...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/altaf-smells-designs-against-democracy.html

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JUI-F leader gunned down in Panjgur
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By Our Staff Correspondent
QUETTA, Oct 29: District General Secretary of JUI-F Hafiz Ehtisham was gunned down in Panjgur on Saturday.

According to sources, Mr Ehtisham was going home when armed men riding a motorcycle opened fire on him and fled. He died on the spot...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/jui-f-leader-gunned-down-in-panjgur.html

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0.25m farmer suicides in India since '95
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, Oct 29: More than a quarter million Indian farmers committed suicide in the last 16 years, making it the worst-ever recorded wave of suicides of this kind anywhere, The Hindu reported on Saturday.

"It's official. The country has seen over a quarter of a million farmers' suicides between 1995 and 2010," the newspaper said in an article by P. Sainath, an acclaimed scholar on India's rural distress...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/30/025m-farmer-suicides-in-india-since-95.html


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