DINA for the issue of January 28, 2012

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January 28, 2012 Saturday Rabi-ul-Awwal 4, 1433
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SC seeks ISI, MI reports on Balochistan killings
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The Supreme Court directed the Inter-Services Intelligence and the Military Intelligence on Friday to submit reports on senseless and indiscriminate killings in Balochistan.

The order was issued by a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez during the hearing of a petition about the breakdown of law and order in the province. It was filed by Hadi Shakeel, former president of the Balochistan High Court Bar Association...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/sc-seeks-isi-mi-reports-on-balochistan-killings.html


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Gilani says ready to go to prison if court so desires
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Monitoring Desk
DAVOS, Jan 27: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said here on Friday he would be ready to go to prison if the court so desired, giving a clear hint how far his government was prepared to go to defend President Asif Ali Zardari on the issue of immunity in Swiss cases.

In an interview to CNN on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the prime minister dwelt upon the question of immunity...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/gilani-says-ready-to-go-to-prison-if-court-so-desires.html


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Fresh hike in petrol price proposed
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: Prices of petroleum products are likely to be increased by Rs3-6 per litre on Jan 31 in line with a rising trend in the international market.

An official said here on Friday that tension between the United States and Iran had led to heavy buying by China and Japan for enhancing stocks, resulting in a high demand and increase in prices...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/islamabad-jan-27-prices-of-petroleum-products-are-likely-to-be-increased-by-rs3-6-per-litre-on-jan-31-in-line-with-a-rising-trend-in-the-international-market.html


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Volley of rockets fired at Kakul academy
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By Rashid Javed
ABBOTTABAD, Jan 27: In an attack evoking the swoop by US commandos on the Abbottabad compound of Osama bin Laden, unknown miscreants fired a volley of rockets at the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), Kakul, on Friday.

A total of nine rockets were fired at the country's premier military academy from Khola Dehri at around 3:20am...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/volley-of-rockets-fired-at-kakul-academy.html


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Khurram says petitioners threatened him
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: Mian Khurram Rasool, a high-profile suspect in a case of swindle who finds himself in a soup for allegedly involving the Prime Minister's Office as partner in crime, on Friday appeared before the Supreme Court and blamed his detractors for his predicament.

"They (petitioners) are very dangerous people who forced me to remain underground for almost eleven months through intimidation and threats," claimed Mian Rasool before a three-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/khurram-says-petitioners-threatened-him.html


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Zardari says PPP will prevail despite plots
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By Shamim-ur-Rahman
KARACHI, Jan 27: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday that the PPP-led government would change the destiny of the country if it was allowed to complete its term and if bureaucracy cooperated with it.

Launching the poverty alleviation programme, Waseela-i-Haq, at the Bilawal House here, he said his government had foiled conspiracies against the democratic dispensation, adding that the PPP would contest elections with the aim of serving the people...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/zardari-says-ppp-will-prevail-despite-plots.html


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By-elections rescheduled to Feb 25
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By Ahmad Hassan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The Election Commission rescheduled on Friday by-elections on 10 seats of the national and provincial assemblies to Feb 25. The date earlier set by the commission was Feb 20.

By-elections will be held on six seats of the National Assembly and four of provincial assemblies in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Two provincial assembly seats on which elections were earlier scheduled for Feb 15 and Feb 6 will also be held on Fen 25...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/by-elections-rescheduled-to-feb-25.html


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Senators question creation of ministries
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By Iftikhar A. Khan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: Senators questioned on Friday the creation of new ministries in the post-devolution scenario, with Mian Raza Rabbani, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, terming it a clear violation of the Constitution.

Speaking on a point of order in the Senate, Mr Rabbani said he had informed Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of his viewpoint that the steps were against the spirit of the 18th Amendment and the Constitution...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/senators-question-creation-of-ministries.html


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US says Pakistan not sidelined in Afghan talks
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, Jan 27: Pakistan has a very important role to play in the Afghan reconciliation process, says the US State Department, rejecting suggestion that the Obama administration's new initiative to directly engage the Taliban militants has sidelined Islamabad.

The State Department also confirmed that a top US diplomat held a number of meetings in Qatar last week on the reconciliation process but stopped short of naming the Taliban as the group he had met...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/us-says-pakistan-not-sidelined-in-afghan-talks.html


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Carbon credit claims in jeopardy
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: With Pakistan's efforts to claim carbon credits on clean energy projects from the United Nations in initial stages, the Three Gorges Dam Company of China and a consortium of Japanese and Australian companies have become embroiled in a dispute over consultancy services to secure international awards for 1,100MW Kohala Hydropower Project (KHP) in Azad Kashmir.

If unresolved, the dispute could cause a major setback to Pakistan's efforts to earn international recognition and clean energy credit benefits following a government decision to build the $2.5 billion project through CWE of China, a subsidiary of the Three Gorges Dam Company...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/carbon-credit-claims-in-jeopardy.html


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Disapproval of US leaders soared to 85pc in Pakistan
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By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 A Gallup report, which reviews all surveys carried out by the prime opinion survey group of the US, of Pakistani public opinion in 2011, notes that the disapproval of US leadership in Pakistan soared to an all-time high of 85 per cent last year, dashing "hopes for achieving some normalcy between the nations". But data collected later revived "some hopes", because a sizable number of Pakistanis, 43 per cent, believe it is very important for Western and Muslim societies to get along.

Pakistan's relations with the US remain on hold as the country continues to re-evaluate ties after a Nov 26 Nato air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in two security posts inside Pakistan...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/disapproval-of-us-leaders-soared-to-85pc-in-pakistan.html


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Swat family got back seized land, SC told
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: A petition filed by a man from Swat whose family was displaced by army operation and whose farmland was taken over by the authorities was disposed of by the Supreme Court on Friday after the judges made sure that the legal heirs of the petitioner had taken possession of the property.

"For the reason that possession of the property has been taken over by the petitioners — a fact confirmed by petitioner's counsel Sanaullah Zahid and the Additional Advocate General of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Syed Arshad H, Shah, no further action is called for," a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry observed...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/swat-family-got-back-seized-land-sc-told.html


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MQM chief lashes out at nationalists
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By Waseem Shamsi
SUKKUR, Jan 27: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has called upon the Urdu- and Sindhi-speaking people of Sindh to respect each other and promote love and tolerance to defeat the designs of what he termed 'so-called nationalists'.

Addressing on phone from London a large public meeting here on Friday, he said the MQM followed the teachings of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai whereas the nationalists were playing an evil game to widen the divide between the two communities to promote their vested interests...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/mqm-chief-lashes-out-at-nationalists.html


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Karachi Stocks Up 97.08Points:
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KARACHI, Jan 27: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 11981.00, up 97.08 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Jan 27: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 90.5 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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