DINA for the issue of November 14, 2011

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November 14, 2011 Monday Zilhaj 17, 1432
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Friendly ties with all neighbours, says Khar
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By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Sunday that the government wanted to improve relations with India under its policy of friendship with neighbours.

"We do not want to commit same mistakes which our last generation had made. We want good relations with all our neighbours, instead of making them worse," the minister said at a press briefing in the Foreign Office after her return from Addu (Maldives) where she accompanied Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani during the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/friendly-ties-with-all-neighbours-says-khar.html


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Gas price with Iran to be reviewed
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: Pakistan will renegotiate a price agreement with Iran for the 750 million cubic feet per day (MMCFD) of natural gas it planned to import by December 2014 under a $3.6 billion pipeline deal. The talks will be held on the basis of the lower gas price parameters
'finalised' with Turkmenistan.

"We will definitely renegotiate gas price with Iran. The (gas sales and purchase) agreement with Iran provides for price renegotiation before the commencement of gas flows," Petroleum Minister Dr Asim Hussain told journalists on Sunday, a day Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow arrives in Islamabad on a two-day visit...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/gas-price-with-iran-to-be-reviewed.html


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Unconstitutional moves to be foiled, says Gilani
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MANDI BAHAUDDIN, Nov 13: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani warned the opposition on Sunday that the elected government would not tolerate any unconstitutional step and that it should not misconstrue the policy of reconciliatory as a sign of weakness.

"The opposition may bring a no-confidence move against me or an impeachment motion against the president if it has something against us," the prime minister said while addressing a public meeting after inaugurating development projects in Phalia...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/unconstitutional-moves-to-be-foiled-says-gilani.html


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25 killed as bus crushes van near Thatta
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By Iqbal Khwaja
THATTA, Nov 13: Twenty-five people were killed and 17 others injured, eight of them critically, when a bus hit a van, throwing it into a roadside ditch near the Wali Mohammad Rind village on the National Highway here on Sunday evening, witnesses said,

They said the accident took place between Gujjo and Thatta when the bus driver trying to overtake the van lost control on the steering wheel and rammed into it. The Badin-bound van fell into the ditch only to be crushed by the bus...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/25-killed-as-bus-crushes-van-near-thatta.html


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NA session may signal 'hot' winter
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: The National Assembly session beginning on Monday could signal a politically hot winter in parliament — and even outside — unless the main challengers get cold feet.

But expected fireworks could wait for a couple of days because the opening day of the lower house's winter session will likely be devoted to mourning for PPP leader and a former house member Nusrat Bhutto who died last month, and on Tuesday the house must take up non-governmental business on the session's first private members' day...
http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/na-session-may-signal-hot-winter.html


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Malik denies arrests in Imran Farooq murder case
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has rejected a claim made by London police that two suspects had been arrested in Pakistan in connection with the murder of MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq.

"No arrest has been made in the murder case of Dr Imran Farooq," the interior minister told reporters at the Benazir International Airport...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/malik-denies-arrests-in-imran-farooq-murder-case.html


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Cart bomb kills nine in Tirah
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By Ibrahim Shinwari
LANDI KOTAL, Nov 13: Nine volunteers of a tribal lashkar were killed and six others injured when a bomb concealed in a donkey cart exploded in a remote village of Tirah valley in Khyber tribal region on Sunday.

According to sources, the incident took place near a watermill in Mastak bazaar where a large number of people, including some activists of Zakhakhel tribal lashkar, had gathered to grind wheat...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/cart-bomb-kills-nine-in-tirah.html


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Security men slain in Jhelum died of bullet wounds
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By Mohammad Asghar
RAWALPINDI, Nov 13: The post-mortem examination on the bodies of four security personnel and a civilian found on Saturday in Pir Chunbbal, one of the most dangerous areas in Jhelum, was carried out at the district headquarters hospital on Sunday morning.

According to hospital sources, the autopsy revealed that all the victims had been shot in the chest and they had sustained multiple bullet injuries...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/security-men-slain-in-jhelum-died-of-bullet-wounds.html


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Ministry seeks to shorten Safta sensitive list
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By Mubarak Zeb Khan
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: In what appears to be a major policy change, the ministry of commerce has in principle sought permission from the federal cabinet to cut the sensitive list for the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (Safta) to liberalise trade with neighbouring countries, according to sources.

A sensitive list having a large number of items only served to limit the scope of the regional trade regime, an official of the ministry said on Sunday...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/ministry-seeks-to-shorten-safta-sensitive-list.html


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