DINA for the issue of January 31, 2012

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January 31, 2012 Tuesday Rabi-ul-Awwal 7, 1433
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Court lifts Haqqani travel restrictions
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: The Supreme Court hearing the controversial memo case lifted on Monday travel restrictions imposed on former ambassador Husain Haqqani on Dec 1 last year and allowed him to go to Washington to meet his family.

A nine-judge larger bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry also gave two more months to the SC-constituted judicial commission to complete its probe into the scandal. The three-judge commission had earlier been asked to come up with its report by Dec 30...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/memo-commission-gets-2-month-extension-court-lifts-haqqani-travel-restrictions.html


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High Court judge to probe Lahore deaths
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Dawn Report
LAHORE, Jan 30: The Lahore High Court instituted a judicial inquiry on Monday at the request of the Punjab government into the death of over 100 cardiac patients as a result of reaction to medicines provided to them.

The chief justice nominated Justice Ijazul Hasan for the inquiry. He has been authorised to ascertain the causes of deaths and fix responsibility. He will also recommend measures for averting such tragic incidents in future...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/high-court-judge-to-probe-lahore-deaths.html


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Leader of banned group dies in suicide attack
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By Ali Hazrat Bacha
PESHAWAR, Jan 30: A leader of a banned group in Khyber Agency and three other people were killed in a suicide attack on his house here on Monday.

Haji Akhunzada, 70, of the Ansarul Islam; his son-in-law Abidullah, 27; Muneeb, 25; and Abdur Rehman died and six other people suffered injuries when the suicide bomber blew himself up outside Akhunzada's house in Pakha Ghulam area...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/leader-of-banned-group-dies-in-suicide-attack.html


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Ogra's move robbed consumers of Rs70 billion
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: If the gas shortage were not bad enough, the ineptness of those running the sector simply compounds an already critical situation.

Gas consumers are reported to have suffered a whopping Rs70 billion loss over three years thanks to a single decision of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) to hike the prices in a violation of then rules. And worse still, this 'wrong' decision to increase prices was leaked in advance allowing powerful brokers to pick up extra stocks of gas companies from the market and make a killing...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/ogra-s-move-robbed-consumers-of-rs70-billion.html


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SC orders production of suspects picked up by agencies
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: The Supreme Court came down hard on the counsel of the chiefs of ISI and MI on Monday and ordered immediate production of suspects picked up by intelligence agencies for their alleged involvement in the October 2009 attacks on the GHQ and ISI's Hamza Camp in Rawalpindi.

The counsel representing directors general of the Inter Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence had earlier assured the court that the 11 prisoners, who mysteriously went missing from outside the Rawalpindi's Adyala Jail the day they were acquitted of terrorism charges, would be tried under the Army Act of 1952...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/sc-orders-production-of-suspects-picked-up-by-agencies.html


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MPA Domki's wife, daughter among three shot dead
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By S. Raza Hassan
KARACHI, Jan 30: A man and two women were killed when gunmen opened fire on a car here in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Police said the vehicle came under fire near a flyover in the Gizri area of Clifton police station...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/mpa-domkis-wife-daughter-among-three-shot-dead.html


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Pakistani beheaded
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RIYADH, Jan 30: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man who was arrested as he tried to smuggle drugs into the kingdom, the interior ministry said on Monday.

"Salman Khan Taj Mohammed, a Pakistani... was arrested as he was caught smuggling a large amount of heroin" into the country, the ministry said in a statement...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/pakistani-beheaded.html


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Free ride for killers in Shahzad commission report: HRW
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Dawn Report
NEW YORK / ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: The government of Pakistan should redouble efforts to find the killers of journalist Saleem Shahzad, following the failure of the judicial inquiry commission to identify those responsible, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The commission concluded in its January 10, 2012 report to the government that the police had failed to question Pakistan's military intelligence officials in its criminal investigation.

Shahzad, a reporter for the Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online and for Adnkronos International, the Italian news agency, disappeared from central Islamabad on the evening of May 29, 2011. His body, bearing visible signs of torture, was found on May 31, near Mandi Bahauddin, 130 kilometres southeast of the capital. The circumstances of the abduction raised concerns that the feared Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency was responsible. In June 2011, the Supreme Court, at the request of the government, instituted a commission of inquiry into the killing...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/free-ride-for-killers-in-shahzad-commission-report-hrw.html


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Cleric sentenced to death in blasphemy case
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By Nabeel Anwar Dhakku
CHAKWAL, Jan 30: A 'blasphemy' accused was sentenced to death and also to 10 years' imprisonment on Monday, sources told Dawn. Soofi Mohammad Ishaq of Talagang town had been facing the charge since 2009.

On Monday, an Additional Sessions Judge of Jhelum sentenced him to death and 10 years' imprisonment and fined him Rs200,000...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/cleric-sentenced-to-death-in-blasphemy-case.html


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Karachi Stocks Down 90.80 Points:
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KARACHI, Jan 30: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 11869.42, down 90.80 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Jan 30: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 90.5 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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