DINA for the issue of December 03, 2011

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December 03, 2011 Saturday Muharram 7, 1433
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PM hints at staying aligned with US
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed and Ahmad Hassan
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday ordered review of the national security paradigm and relations with the United States and Nato, but at the same time admitted that remaining aligned with Washington was the best way to achieve peace in Afghanistan.

"We believe that the way forward is to make honest efforts to get clarity and develop coherence, especially between Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States for instituting a credible process for a durable political settlement," Mr Gilani said in his opening remarks at a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS)...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/pm-hints-at-staying-aligned-with-us.html


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Gilani sees no threat to government
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By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD: Although shaken by the latest developments surrounding the memo scandal, the PPP leadership is hopeful that it will once again prove the prophets of doom wrong.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani here on Friday talked about a conspiracy against his government, but said: "For the last four years some quarters day in and day out are working to destabilise the elected government, but failed in the end, therefore, now trying some more tricks to achieve their aim."..

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/gilani-sees-no-threat-to-government.html


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PBC body criticizes judiciary's role
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Lines are being drawn fast and stakeholders are indicating where they stand a day after the Supreme Court's order on PML-N's petition against the memogate scandal.

The situation became clear on Friday when two clarifications were issued — one by the Supreme Court and the other by the Attorney General's office — while a committee of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) adopted a resolution blaming one institution for transgressing the domain of the other...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/pbc-body-criticises-judiciarys-role.html


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PML-N won't attend in-camera session
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: The Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, declared on Friday that the Pakistan Muslim League-N would not attend an in camera joint sitting of both houses of parliament being convened to discuss the Nato attack.

Speaking at a reception given by the Parliamentary Reporters' Association, he said his party would also not become part of any resolution unless the fate of resolutions passed during previous joint sittings was explained...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/pml-n-wont-attend-in-camera-session.html


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Bill blocking US aid likely to be vetoed
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WASHINGTON, Dec 2: The White House said on Friday it may veto a Senate bill which includes a provision for blocking US aid to Pakistan until Islamabad takes aggressive steps to curb the use of roadside bombs that kill American soldiers in Afghanistan.

The US Senate passed a massive $662 billion defence authorisation bill on Thursday night on a 93-7 vote...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/bill-blocking-us-aid-likely-to-be-vetoed.html


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FIA officials to collect data on airbase
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ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: The government deputed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) personnel at the Shamsi Airbase on Friday to compile the data of foreigners there.

"We have sent FIA personnel to compile the data of feigners," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters outside the Markazi Imambargah where he attended a majlis...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/fia-officials-to-collect-data-on-airbase.html


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'Huge' blast near Nato camp in Logar; 70 hurt
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PUL-I-ALAM (Afghanistan), Dec 2: A powerful truck bomb exploded near the gate of a Nato base in Afghanistan on Friday, killing one person and wounding as many as 70 others, including a foreign soldier, officials said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at Combat Outpost McClain in Mohammad Agha district of Logar province, south of the capital Kabul, which took place at around 8am...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/huge-blast-near-nato-camp-in-logar-70-hurt.html


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Fear of 'farce' looms over Bonn conference
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BERLIN, Dec 2: A major international conference on Monday will seek to chart a course for Afghanistan after Nato troops pull out in 2014 but a boycott by Pakistan has dealt a stinging blow to hopes for a roadmap.

The meeting will bring 100 national delegations to the western German city of Bonn. However a deadly Nato bombing raid prompted Pakistan to scratch its name from the list, jeopardising the already modest expectations...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/fear-of-farce-looms-over-bonn-conference.html


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Organisers informed of govt decision
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BERLIN: Pakistan has officially withdrawn from an international conference on Afghanistan, Germany's foreign ministry said on Friday, saying that it regretted the boycott.

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle in a telephone call late on Friday that his country would not send a delegation, but wished the conference success, the ministry said.—Reuters..

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/organisers-informed-of-govt-decision.html


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Senate calls for resisting attacks
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By Iftikhar A. Khan
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: The upper house of parliament has called for putting up resistance against attacks on the country's sovereignty and condemned the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) attack on border posts in Mohmand Agency that claimed the lives of 24 military men.

Through a resolution adopted unanimously on Friday, the Senate rejected the plea that the attack was the result of some misunderstanding, pointing out that the military posts had been attacked in the past as well...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/senate-calls-for-resisting-attacks.html


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Official denies approval was given for Nato strikes
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ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: A Pakistani official on Friday denied a western newspaper report that Pakistani officials gave the go-ahead to Nato air strikes that killed 24 troops, unaware that their own forces were in the area.

Last weekend's cross-border attack has caused outrage in Pakistan, where the government has pulled out of next week's international conference on Afghanistan and threatened to end support for the US-led war there if its sovereignty is violated again...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/official-denies-approval-was-given-for-nato-strikes.html


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Islamabad not joining probe: Pentagon
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By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec 2: The US Defence Department said on Friday that Pakistan was refusing to participate in the US investigation of last week's Nato bombing along the Afghanistan border which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

Defence Department spokesman George Little told a news briefing that the US had asked Pakistan to be part of the investigation, but the Pakistanis have "elected to date" to not participate. He described the bombing as a "bump in the road" for US-Pakistani counter-terrorism cooperation...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/islamabad-not-joining-probe-pentagon.html


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Pakistan's attitude towards militants being watched: India
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: Pakistan has not delivered on its promise to arrest seven people involved in the Mumbai attacks, according to Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram.

It has also reneged on its pledge to hand over the suspects' voice samples...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/pakistans-attitude-towards-militants-being-watched-india.html


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Broker for would-be bomber Sentenced
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NEW YORK, Dec 2: A man unwittingly swept up in a failed terror plot to bomb Times Square last year was sentenced on Thursday to three years' probation.

Mohammad Younis had pleaded guilty to charges he arranged an illegal transfer of $7,000 to Faisal Shahzad — money Shahzad claimed that the Pakistani Taliban provided to fund his one-man strike against New York City...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/broker-for-would-be-bomber-sentenced.html


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UK arrests 22 after drone protest
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LONDON, Dec 2: British police said they arrested 22 people outside the US Embassy here on Friday during a protest over the American use of drones in Pakistan.

Scotland Yard confirmed that the arrests were made at the demonstration organised by a group calling itself United Ummah...

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/03/uk-arrests-22-after-drone-protest.html


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Karachi Stocks Down 174.89 Points:
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KARACHI, Dec 02: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 11382.48, down 174.89 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Dec 02: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 89.2 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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