DINA for the issue of November 15, 2011

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November 15, 2011 Tuesday Zilhaj 18, 1432
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Gas agreement signed with Turkmenistan
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By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: Pakistan and Turkmenistan signed on Monday five agreements and memoranda of understanding to boost cooperation in the fields of trade, energy, media and culture.

One of the agreements relates to the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project under which Pakistan will get 1.3 billion cubic feet per day of gas. The TAPI accord is a follow-up to an inter-government agreement signed by Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and India in December last year...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/accord-to-boost-trade-gas-agreement-signed-with-turkmenistan.html


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Qureshi makes waves by quitting PPP and NA
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has finally ended his 18 years' association with the Pakistan People's Party, citing the leadership's decision to ally the party with the Pakistan Muslim League-Q as the main reason for his expected and long-awaited decision.

Talking to reporters outside the Parliament House here on Monday, Mr Qureshi announced that he had also decided to resign from his National Assembly seat and joined his voice with some other opposition parties by calling for mid-term elections...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/qureshi-makes-waves-by-quitting-ppp-and-na.html


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Trust us, commerce secretary tells India
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, Nov 14: The commerce secretaries of India and Pakistan began a two-day meeting here on Monday with an ambitious agenda to end their decades-old aloofness estimated to have cost billions of dollars in aborted annual trade.

It was not surprising then that India's Rahul Khullar and Pakistan's Zafar Mahmood, clearly mandated to make it all happen, began with political comments usually reserved for higher diplomacy...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/trust-us-commerce-secretary-tells-india.html


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Govt can end loadshedding if it wants to: SC
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: The Supreme Court asked on Monday how shortage of electricity was recently overcome in a day when Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's issued an order to the affect after widespread protests against loadshedding.

"From where the power shortfall was met? This shows the problem can be solved if the prime minister wants to do so," Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said while hearing the rental power plants (RPP) case...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/govt-can-end-loadshedding-if-it-wants-to-sc.html


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Five FC men killed, colonel hurt in attacks
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By Ibrahim Shiwnari
LANDI KOTAL, Nov 14: Five security personnel were killed and six others injured when militants first attacked a check-post and later an FC convoy in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Monday, official sources said.

The FC men led by Lt-Col Azhar Amin had gone to Nala in Malikdin Khel area to shift the body of Latif Khan who was killed when militants had attacked a check-post in the morning. As the FC convoy was carrying the body militants ambushed it, killing four security men identified as Ibrahim, Majeed, Waseem and Salman...
http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/five-fc-men-killed-colonel-hurt-in-attacks.html


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New technology added bite to Swat operation, says PAF chief
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DUBAI, Nov 14: The armed forces have broken the back of militancy in the tribal areas, but that is only half the battle, chief of the Pakistan Air Force said here on Monday.

"Offensive military engagement could only accomplish 10 to 15 per cent of the task of pacifying tribal areas. The rest must be done through dialogue, winning hearts and minds through economic development of these very poor regions," Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman said in an address to a conference of air chiefs...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/new-technology-added-bite-to-swat-operation-says-paf-chief.html


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K. Pakhtunkhwa decides against five-day week
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By Intikhab Amir
PESHAWAR, Nov 14: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has opposed the federal government's decision about two holidays a week and said it would not implement the decision unless the Council of Common Interests endorses it by majority.

Information Minister Mian iftikhar Hussain said at a press conference that the provincial cabinet reconsidered the matter at a meeting on Monday and decided to continue observing one weekly off. The objective of saving energy, the minister said, was not achieved when the federal government instruction had been implemented by the KP government last year...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/k-pakhtunkhwa-decides-against-five-day-week.html


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NAB chief orders probe into railways scams
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: Acting upon an order of the Supreme Court to investigate reasons for Pakistan Railways' downslide, National Accountability Bureau Chairman Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari ordered on Monday an inquiry against PR officials allegedly involved in corruption scandals—misappropriation, embezzlement and misuse of authority.

A NAB spokesman said a team had been formed to conduct the inquiry which would determine the amount of money embezzled and the extent of responsibility of railway officials and others...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/nab-chief-orders-probe-into-railways-scams.html


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Ex-official 'still fears for life'
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: FIA's former additional director general Zafar Ahmed Qureshi, who was investigating Chaudhry Moonis Elahi for his involvement in the multi-billion rupees National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam, again informed the Supreme Court on Monday that he was still being haunted and that he feared for his life.

A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Pervez and Justice Amir Hani Muslim is hearing the politically explosive case whose matrix changed after a banking court acquitted on Oct 22 Moonis Elahi, the son of former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/ex-official-still-fears-for-life.html


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Malinga helps Sri Lanka win
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DUBAI, Nov 14: Sling-action paceman Lasith Malinga took three wickets to help Sri Lanka to a 25-run win over Pakistan in the second one day international to level the five-match series 1-1 here on Monday.

Malinga took two wickets in the first over and then returned in his second spell to finish with 3-36 to help dismiss Pakistan for 210 in 46.3 overs after setting them a target of 236 runs at Dubai stadium...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/malinga-helps-sri-lanka-win.html


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NA mourns for Nusrat
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: The National Assembly's winter session, billed to see a lot of government-opposition confrontation, opened rather mournfully on Monday when the house suspended its day's agenda to mourn the death of Begum Nusrat Bhutto, its three-time former member and widow of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Most of the tributes for the former first lady, who died on Oct 23 in a Dubai hospital at the age of 82 after a long illness and self-exile, came from members of her own Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which she led for some years after the arrest and execution of her husband following the toppling of the PPP government in a 1977 army coup...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/15/na-mourns-for-nusrat.html


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Karachi Stocks Down 29.16 Points:
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KARACHI, Nov 14: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 12009.77, down 29.16 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Nov 14: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 86.8 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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