DINA for the issue of January 13, 2012

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January 13, 2012 Friday Safar 18, 1433
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PML-N hints at tabling no-trust move
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The Pakistan Muslim League-N decided on Thursday to launch a campaign to mount pressure on the government starting with a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who has been trying to seek parliamentary support in the standoff with the judiciary on the NRO and with the military on the memo issues.

Sources in the PML-N said the decision had been taken at a joint meeting of the party's central working committee and the parliamentary group, presided over by party chief Nawaz Sharif. But it was subject to a response from other political parties, they said...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/pml-n-hints-at-tabling-no-trust-move.html


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PPP's allies stress caution, policy of conciliation
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By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The PPP may be ready to go down fighting but its coalition partners are urging it to stick to its policy of reconciliation in coping with the current crisis.

At a meeting held before the National Assembly session on Thursday, the allies advised the Pakistan People's Party to avoid confrontation with other state organs...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/ppps-allies-stress-caution-policy-of-conciliation.html


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ISI, IB should be made more accountable: commission
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: A commission constituted by the government to investigate the circumstances leading to the killing of journalist Syed Salim Shahzad has blamed various 'belligerents' involved in the war on terror for his murder.

But it didn't single out any person or organisation, who could have killed him, leaving the room open for further probe. In its set of recommendations, the most important was to rein in the Inter-Services Intelligence and Intelligence Bureau and make them accountable within their organisations and to the parliamentary committees concerned...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/isi-ib-should-be-made-more-accountable-commission.html


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Generals quietly review options
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: Amid an intensifying row with the government, army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani met the corps commanders on Thursday at an unannounced session of the military's top brass that studied various options for dealing with the political crisis that has ensued from the memo scandal.

The silence maintained by the military and its media wing, ISPR, over the meeting was more worrying than reassuring as it sent Islamabad's rumour mills working overtime...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/generals-quietly-review-options.html


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Mansoor Ijaz yet to apply for visa
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Dawn Report
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: Brushing aside rumours in some circles, Mansoor Ijaz, one of the main characters in the memo controversy, announced on Thursday that he would definitely visit Pakistan to offer his testimony before the judicial commission.

"Some important security-related concerns have arisen as the date of my testimony nears. Certain adjustments are being made that are not for public dissemination," Mr Ijaz said without elaborating in an email...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/mansoor-ijaz-yet-to-apply-for-visa.html


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Drone kills 5 in North Waziristan
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By Pazir Gul
MIRAMSHAH, Jan 12: Five people were killed and two others wounded when missiles fired by a US drone hit a compound in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday, sources said.

This was the second drone attack in the area in two days...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/drone-kills-5-in-north-waziristan.html


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15 elders select successor Sibghatullah Hurs' new spiritual leader
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By Our Correspondent
SUKKUR, Jan 12: Shah Mardan Shah-II Pir Pagara, the spiritual leader of Hur Jamaat and chief of the Pakistan Muslim League (Functional), was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Dargah-i-Rashidia in Pir Jo Goth on Thursday afternoon.

According to the family tradition, the decision about Pir Pagara's succession was taken before burial by 15 Khalifas (elders of the jamaat) who selected the late leader's eldest son Pir Sibghatullah Shah alias Raja Sain as the 8th Pir Pagara...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/15-elders-select-successor-sibghatullah-hurs-new-spiritual-leader.html


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SC orders verification of military claim about Swat 'terrorist'
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The Supreme Court ordered the Defence Secretary on Thursday to verify claims made by military authorities while branding a Swat resident a terrorist.

A four-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had taken up a petition of Abdul Ghaffar Khan seeking to reclaim his ancestral farmland and gardens he had left behind while leaving as an internally displaced person when the operation "Rah-i-Rast" was launched by security forces against Taliban terrorists in Swat.The petitioner said he owned 500 kanals of agricultural land and gardens in the revenue estate of Kota in Tehsil Barikot...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/denial-of-farmland-and-property-to-family-sc-orders-verification-of-military-claim-about-swat-terrorist.html


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Senate elections on March 2
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By Iftikhar A. Khan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The Election Commission announced on Thursday that Senate elections would be held on March 2.

The ruling Pakistan People's Party is set to win majority seats in the upper house for the first time in the country's parliamentary history. The elections for half of the seats, in addition to the four reserved for minorities under the 18th Amendment, will take the number of senators from 100 to 104, with the PPP having the prospect of securing over 40 seats...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/senate-elections-on-march-2.html


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US orders probe into defiling of Taliban bodies
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By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan 12: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has ordered a probe of the video showing Marines urinating on dead Taliban.

The video that began circulating online on Wednesday afternoon shows four US Marines apparently urinating over three Taliban corpses somewhere in Afghanistan...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/us-orders-probe-into-defiling-of-taliban-bodies.html


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Clinton speaks out in favour of elected govt
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, Jan 12: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday expressed strong support for the current democratic set-up in Pakistan and said the United States expected Pakistani rulers to resolve their differences in a just and transparent manner that upheld their laws and constitution.

The statement, in a joint briefing with the visiting Algerian foreign minister, indicated that Secretary Clinton had discussed this issue with the new Pakistani Ambassador, Sherry Rehman, as well who met her at the State Department on Wednesday...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/13/clinton-speaks-out-in-favour-of-elected-govt.html


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Karachi Stocks Down 22.76 Points:
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KARACHI, Jan 12: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 10907.73, down 22.76 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Jan 12: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 91.5 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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