DINA for the Issue of February 27, 2012

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February 27, 2012 Monday Rabi-us-Sani 4, 1433
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EOBI plans to invest in energy schemes
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By Bakhtawar Mian
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) is planning to invest money in alternative energy schemes to enhance its revenues and help ease the energy crisis in the country.

The EOBI is planning to invest in a coal-water-slurry project which the institution expects to produce 25 megawatts of electricity in Multan. A proposal has been sent to Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) for approval...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/eobi-plans-to-invest-in-energy-schemes-3.html


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PTI boycott call fails to affect bypoll turnout
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By Amir Wasim and Zulqernain Tahir
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE, Feb 26: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf's decision to boycott the by-elections held over the weekend appears to have left the PTI itself bruised, rather than its political rivals.

Not only the voters' turnout defied the usual low pattern in by-elections, the boycott provided the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-N an opportunity to shape strategies for the coming general election...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/pti-boycott-call-fails-to-affect-bypoll-turnout-3.html


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Key ministries yet to agree on negative list for trade with India
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By Mubarak Zeb Khan
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The government has promised to complete the negative list for trade with India by the end of this month but differences between two key ministries concerned on certain points are making it difficult to give it a final shape.

The commerce ministry wants only a limited number of items on the negative list and its total elimination in nine months, but the industries ministry proposes that the phasing out of the list should begin three years after its notification and it should be made ineffective in five years...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/key-ministries-yet-to-agree-on-negative-list-for-trade-with-india.html


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Demolition of Osama compound completed
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PESHAWAR, Feb 26: The home of Osama bin Laden, the place where he was killed after the world's largest manhunt, is no more.

Security forces completed the demolition of Osama's compound on Sunday. "The process of demolishing the compound (which began) on Saturday evening has been completed on Sunday night," a senior security official said in Abbottabad...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/demolition-of-osama-compound-completed.html


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Pakistan should have key role in Afghanistan: Kerry
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, Feb 26: The United States needs to further a reconciliation process in the Pak-Afghan region which is led by both key players, Afghanistan and Pakistan, says Senator John Kerry.

The senator, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the main foreign policy-making body in the US Congress, also urged Washington to re-establish a relationship with Islamabad which would go beyond the Afghan crisis...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/pakistan-should-have-key-role-in-afghanistan-kerry.html


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267 employees of Planning Commission set to lose job
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: About 267 employees, including over a dozen senior officers of the Planning Commission, are likely to lose their jobs before June 30 following closure of about 20 capacity-building projects.

The commission has already notified the closure of 15 such projects before June 30, this year, while four projects funded mostly through foreign assistance will complete their designed life...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/267-employees-of-planning-commission-set-to-lose-job.html


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JUI chief questions role of establishment in politics
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By Majeed Gill
BAHAWALPUR, Feb 26: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, has held the establishment responsible for the current state of affairs in the country.

Addressing an 'Islam Zindabad Conference' here on Sunday, he said the interference of state institutions in political matters had caused dismemberment of the country and now Balochistan was facing a similar situation...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/jui-chief-questions-role-of-establishment-in-politics.html


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Bypoll slapping incident termed result of misunderstanding
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By Aziz Malik
HYDERABAD, Feb 26: An assistant presiding officer who was slapped by PPP candidate Waheeda Shah Bukhari during Saturday's by-election in Tando Mohammad Khan has termed the incident a result of a misunderstanding.

Addressing a news conference at the residence of the candidate, Shagufta Memon said Ms Bukhari had mistaken her for a polling agent of her rival candidate, Mir Mushtaque Ali Talpur...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/bypoll-slapping-incident-termed-result-of-misunderstanding.html


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Bypoll assault condemned
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KARACHI, Feb 26: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has condemned the 'assault and brutal torture' of a woman assistant presiding officer and other polling staff by a woman candidate in the by-election for PS-53 seat of Sindh Assembly.

According to a statement issued from London on Sunday, Mr Hussain said the manner in which the women staffers were subjected to physical violence was reprehensible...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/bypoll-assault-condemned.html


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Bribery petition hearing may harm ex-servicemen more than politicians
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: As the Supreme Court resumes on Wednesday, hearing of a petition filed in 1996 by Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan against the ISI having bribed politicians, legal minds are of the opinion that the proceedings will expose ex-servicemen more than politicians involved in the scandal.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez will hear the case, apparently because of a growing demand from certain quarters that the politicians and political groups who had received illegal money from the intelligence agency should be brought to justice...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/bribery-petition-hearing-may-harm-ex-servicemen-more-than-politicians.html


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Four security men killed in S. Waziristan
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By Sailab Mehsud
LADDAH, Feb 26: Four security personnel were killed and another was injured in a roadside bomb blast and a rocket attack in South Waziristan on Sunday.

Official sources said a team of security forces was on patrol when it hit a bomb reportedly placed by militants on the Jandula-Sararogha road...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/four-security-men-killed-in-s-waziristan.html


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HRCP voices concern over incidents of kidnapping
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By Our Staff Correspondent
QUETTA, Feb 26: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the growing incidents of kidnapping for ransom in Balochistan and called upon the government to take action against those responsible.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, HRCP vice chairman Tahir Hussain said that with each passing day the law and order situation in the province was deteriorating and kidnapping incidents had become a routine...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/hrcp-voices-concern-over-incidents-of-kidnapping.html


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Pakistan, UAE sign accord on transfer of prisoners
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ABU DHABI, Feb 26: Interior Minister Rehman Malik and his UAE counterpart Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan signed on Sunday an agreement on transfer of prisoners.

Under the agreement, Pakistani convicts in the UAE will have an opportunity to undergo their remaining sentence in their home country...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/27/pakistan-uae-sign-accord-on-transfer-of-prisoners.html


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