DINA for the issue of January 26, 2012

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January 26, 2012 Thursday Rabi-ul-Awwal 2, 1433
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Gilani retracts remarks against Kayani, Pasha
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By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: In what was seen here as yet another backtracking, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that his remarks about replies filed in the Supreme Court in the memo case were not against the army chief and the director general of ISI.

"The remarks were made in a different context," the prime minister said, adding that the remarks on that occasion had been made in a unique situation when things were overlapping and there was no clarity...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/move-to-mend-fences-gilani-retracts-remarks-against-kayani-pasha.html


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Fourteen of 29 trapped miners rescued
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Dawn Report
ABBOTTABAD/QUETTA, Jan 25: At least 29 workers were trapped inside two mines on Wednesday — 15 in Mach area of Balochistan and 14 in Tarnawai area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, 14 of them were later rescued.

Fourteen workers were trapped inside a mine when heavy rocks blocked its entrance in Batt Kanal village near Tarnawai area, about 30km from Abbottabad...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/14-of-29-trapped-miners-rescued.html


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SC summons AG and chiefs of army, ISI
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Overruling an office objection, the Supreme Court accepted on Wednesday a petition by a woman whose three sons had been picked up by intelligence personnel for their alleged role in the October 2009 attacks on the army GHQ and the ISI's Hamza Camp in Rawalpindi. She alleged that her sons and eight other people had been kept in illegal confinement since May 29, 2010, and four of them, including Abdus Saboor, died in mysterious circumstances.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez took up the appeal of Ms Ruhaifa through her counsel Tariq Asad and summoned Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq, advocate general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Inter-Services Intelligence Director General Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director general of Military Intelligence, the judge advocate general and the army commanding officer concerned...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/petition-on-deaths-in-custody-sc-summons-ag-and-chiefs-of-army-isi.html


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Three lawyers killed in Karachi sectarian attack
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By S. Raza Hassan
KARACHI, Jan 25: Three lawyers were shot dead and a fourth was wounded here on Wednesday in what appeared to be a targeted sectarian attack.

Gunmen sprayed the lawyers' car with bullets on Maulana Din Mohammad Wafai Road near Pakistan Chowk when they were going home from City Courts. One of the deceased was a senior lawyer and the others his son and nephew...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/three-lawyers-killed-in-karachi-sectarian-attack.html


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SC warns FIA chief
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: The Supreme Court warned the Director General of Federal Investigation Agency, Tehseen Anwar Shah, on Wednesday of contempt proceedings if he failed to arrest PTV's former adviser Mian Khurram Rasool by Friday.

The adviser is wanted in fraud cases but is being allegedly protected by top government officials...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/sc-warns-fia-chief.html


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100 cardiac patients have died: Shahbaz
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By Asif Chaudhry
LAHORE, Jan 25: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that reaction to suspected drugs has claimed lives of 100 cardiac patients at Punjab Institute of Cardiology so far, disputing his own health department's death toll of 72 on Wednesday.

Although the chief minister publicly revealed the death of 100 patients, the health department confirmed only 72 deaths on Wednesday, showing a wide gap in casualty figures between the two top authorities of the province...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/100-cardiac-patients-have-died-shahbaz.html


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Six troops, 18 militants die in Kurram
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By Our Correspondent
PARACHINAR, Jan 25: Security forces claimed on Wednesday to have captured a Taliban stronghold in central tehsil of Kurram. Eighteen militants and six soldiers died in the fighting for the area.

According to sources, the fighting broke out on Tuesday when security personnel launched a search operation in the Jogi area...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/six-troops-18-militants-die-in-kurram.html


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Zardari confers Benazir award on Suu Kyi
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YANGON (Myanmar), Jan 25: President Asif Ali Zardari conferred the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Award for Democracy on Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday in recognition of her outstanding services for the cause of democracy.

The award was presented to Suu Kyi by Aseefa Bhutto Zardari at a ceremony held at the residence of the Myanmar leader. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and members of the visiting Pakistani delegation attended the ceremony...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/zardari-confers-benazir-award-on-suu-kyi.html


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Pakistan and India report progress on key pipeline
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NEW DELHI, Jan 25: India and Pakistan said on Wednesday they were now closer to an agreement on a pipeline to import gas from Turkmenistan, signalling a further warming of economic ties between the two countries.

Turkmenistan has the world's fourth-largest gas reserves and energy-hungry India and Pakistan are both eager to tap this source through the pipeline that would run through the Central Asian nation's eastern neighbour, Afghanistan...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/pakistan-and-india-report-progress-on-key-pipeline.html


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N-talks: plea for balanced approach
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: In its deliberations, Conference on Disarmament (CD) should take into account the security needs of all states, Foreign Office said on Wednesday.

Commenting on reports regarding the current impasse in talks on nuclear disarmament, spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "The CD should have a balanced approach and pursue all items on its agenda, taking into account the well-established principle of equal and undiminished security for all states."..

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/26/n-talks-plea-for-balanced-approach.html


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Karachi Stocks Down 41.63 Points:
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KARACHI, Jan 25: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 11949.75, down 41.63 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Jan 25: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 90.8 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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