DINA for the issue of 11 December, 2011

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December 11, 2011 Sunday Muharram 15, 1433
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Taliban leader hopeful of peace accord on Bajaur
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By Anwarullah Khan
KHAR, Dec 10: The fugitive deputy commander of the outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, has confirmed he is in peace talks with the government and that an agreement is in sight.

He said the government had released 145 members of the group as a "gesture of goodwill" and the militants had pledged a ceasefire...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/taliban-leader-hopeful-of-peace-accord-on-bajaur.html


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Stranded Nato vehicles clog up ports
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By Parvaiz Ishfaq Rana
KARACHI, Dec 10: The decision to block supplies for Nato forces has brought a knotty problem for an unlikely quarter --- the country's two sea ports --- since supplies ordered before the Mohmand air strikes have been reaching the Karachi and Bin Qasim ports anyway.

Four container ships and two vehicle carriers have unloaded around 2,000 boxes and 1,200 military vehicles since late last month, clogging the container terminals...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/stranded-nato-vehicles-clog-up-ports.html


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Nawaz vows to bring BB's killers to justice
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By M.B. Kalhoro
LARKANA, Dec 10: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has pledged that after becoming the country's prime minister he would mobilise all resources to arrest the killers of the late Benazir Bhutto.

Addressing a public meeting here on Saturday, he criticised the government and said what good could be expected from it when it had failed even to catch the murderers of the slain former prime minister and PPP chairperson. "Being her brother, it's my duty to arrest her killers," he said...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/nawaz-vows-to-bring-bb-s-killers-to-justic.html


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Former envoy challenges SC decision
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Former ambassador to US Husain Haqqani is in no mood to give up without a fight.

This was evident on Saturday when through his firebrand lawyer and human rights activist, Asma Jahangir, he challenged the Supreme Court office's decision of the previous day in which the registrar had rejected Haqqani's petition against the court's Dec 1 order in the memo case...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/former-envoy-challenges-sc-decision.html


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Bilawal eases into active politics
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Ineligible to become a member of the National Assembly for another two years, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has eased into active politics to cover for his father who had to leave the country last week for Dubai.

President Asif Ali Zardari's absence has allowed the 23-year-old symbolic chairman to take reins of the Pakistan People's Party, which has so far been steered by his father through an unusual position of co-chairman...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/bilawal-eases-into-active-politics.html


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American personnel leave base today
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, Dec 10: The last contingent of US personnel and technicians would leave the Shamsi airbase in Washak district of Balochistan on Sunday, along with the equipment and military vehicles.

"A cargo plane of the US Air Force arrived at the airbase today to take the US troops to their next destination," a senior government official told Dawn on Saturday night...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/american-personnel-leave-base-today.html


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Yemen's unity govt takes oath
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SANAA, Dec 10: Yemen's national unity government, led by the opposition, was sworn in on Saturday to lead a three-month transition period until early elections are held and President Ali Abdullah Saleh formally steps down.

The official Saba news agency said the swearing-in ceremony took place at the Republican Palace in the capital Sanaa in the presence of Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/yemens-unity-govt-takes-oath.html


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CNG cylinders burst after van collides with truck; 16 killed
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By Gulzar Beg
VEHARI, Dec 10: Sixteen passengers, three children among them, were burnt alive and 12 others injured on Saturday when a CNG-run van caught fire after colliding with a truck near Tibba Sultanpur, some 60km from here.

Eyewitnesses said a big blaze engulfed the overcrowded van as its gas cylinders burst after the collision. It was on its way to Multan from Mailsi...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/cng-cylinders-burst-after-van-collides-with-truck-16-killed.html


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Another leak detected at Japan's nuclear plant
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TOKYO, Dec 10: A Japan-
ese nuclear plant leaked 1.8 tons of radioactive water from its cooling system, the government said, heightening safety worries as an atomic crisis continues at another plant.

The leak, discovered on Friday, caused no environmental impact as it was contained within an idled reactor at the Genkai nuclear plant in Saga prefecture in the southern Kyushu region, officials said...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/another-leak-detected-at-japans-nuclear-plant.html


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KESC, minister in row over supply cut
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By Shamim-ur-Rahman
KARACHI, Dec 10: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) on Saturday claimed to have cut off the supply to the residence of provincial Law Minister Ayaz Soomro on account of nonpayment of dues.

However, the minister denied the KESC's claim and said the bills had been paid through the Services and General Administration Department. He also said there was no disruption in electricity supply to his house...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/kesc-minister-in-row-over-supply-cut.html


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Protests mark rights day in Kashmir
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SRINAGAR, Dec 10: Scores of people held protests on Saturday against rights abuses in Indian-held Kashmir and lit candles in a vigil to mark the World Human Rights Day.

One of the protests was led by independent lawmaker Sheikh Abdul Rashid outside a UN office in Srinagar, police and witnesses said...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/protests-mark-rights-day-in-kashmir.html


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Big rallies held across Russia against Putin
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MOSCOW, Dec 10: Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Russia on Saturday to demand an end to Vladimir Putin's rule and a rerun of a parliamentary election in the biggest opposition protests since he rose to power more than a decade ago.
Protesters waved banners such as "The rats should go!" and "Swindlers and thieves — give us our elections back!" in cities from the Pacific port of Vladivostok in the east to Kaliningrad in the west, nearly 7,400km away...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/11/big-rallies-held-across-russia-against-putin.html


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