DINA for the issue of 28, March 2012
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March 28, 2012 Wednesday Jumadi-ul-Awwal 04, 1433
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Gilani given assurance on sovereignty: Obama wants US concerns addressed
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
SEOUL, March 27: US President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for a balanced approach in ties, one which respected Pakistan's sovereignty and also addressed American national security concerns.
"That we can achieve the kind of balanced approach that respects Pakistan's sovereignty but also respects our concerns with respect to our national security," President Obama told reporters before holding talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/gilani-given-assurance-on-sovereignty-obama-wants-us-concerns-addressed.html
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Role of IAEA stressed
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By Our Staff Reporter
SEOUL, March 27: The Nuclear Security Summit concluded on Tuesday by underscoring the centrality of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the global nuclear security structure and issuing voluntary guidelines for participating states to maintain effective security of radioactive material.
"We reaffirm the essential responsibility and central role of the IAEA in strengthening the international nuclear security framework and recognise the value of the IAEA Nuclear Security Plan 2010-13," a joint communique issued at the end of the two-day summit said, in addition to pointing out that nuclear terrorism continued to be a major threat to world security...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/role-of-iaea-stressed.html
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10 dead, over 40 vehicles torched: Killing and arson come back to
torment Karachi
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By S. Raza Hassan
KARACHI, March 27: The city descended into violence on Tuesday as gunmen and arsonists went on the rampage, killing at least 10 people and setting on fire over 40 vehicles. The violence erupted after the killing of a Muttahida Qaumi Movement's worker and his brother early in the morning.
As the wave of killings and arson attacks continued, police and Rangers remained on the sidelines doing nothing to restore order...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/10-dead-over-40-vehicles-torched-killing-and-arson-come-back-to-torment-karachi.html
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Pakistan wants result-oriented talks: Khar
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By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI, March 27: The widely anticipated but eventually unscripted and informal meeting between the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers in Seoul has nudged the dialogue process between their officials to be a result-oriented exercise, scant insights into the brief meeting on the margins of an international nuclear summit there indicated on Tuesday.
The Hindu newspaper said the "unscheduled and unscripted" meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani seemed to have been a positive event...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/pakistan-wants-result-oriented-talks-khar.html
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Muttahida may continue boycott of joint session
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, March 27: Muttahida Qaumi Movement legislators may continue their boycott of the joint sitting of parliament on Wednesday in protest against the killing of an activist of the party and his brother and failure of police to arrest the killers.
"Although we announced boycott of Tuesday's joint sitting only, we can extend it if the government fails to take practical steps to arrest the killers," said Haider Abbas Rizvi, MQM's deputy parliamentary leader in the National Assembly. But, he said a final decision would be taken on Wednesday, depending on the situation in Karachi...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/muttahida-may-continue-boycott-of-joint-session.html
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Opposition in about-turn on US ties
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, March 27: The opposition took an obvious about-turn in parliament on Tuesday on reviewing ties with the United States, with one party leader apparently making a common cause with the Taliban by threatening to physically block a resumption of Nato supplies to Afghanistan.
Opposition Leader in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan of Pakistan Muslim League-N, and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman made fiery speeches in a joint sitting of the two houses of parliament to voice their "serious reservations" on some key recommendations of the bipartisan Parliamentary Committee on National Security at the start of a debate on its report that their party nominees had signed...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/opposition-in-about-turn-on-us-ties.html
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IPPs serve notices for Rs42bn
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, March 27: Eleven independent power producers (IPPs) with a total generation capacity of about 2,500MW have served notices about invoking the government's sovereign guarantees over non-payment of Rs42 billion arrears.
A power ministry official confirmed that nine IPPs established under the 2002 power policy and two under the 1994 policy had served notices on the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA), which is responsible for procuring electricity from the IPPs, public sector thermal power plants and Wapda to invoke the sovereign guarantees...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/ipps-serve-notices-for-rs42bn.html
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Investment accord initialled before parliament review
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By Mubarak Zeb Khan
ISLAMABAD, March 27: While legislators are engaged in a crucial debate for devising fresh terms of engagement with the United States in the joint session of parliament, the government gave approval to a controversial Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with Washington a couple of weeks ago.
This treaty had been pending since 2006 because Islamabad had objected to some tough clauses. Saleem Mandviwala, the Minister of State and Chairman of Board of Investment, initialled the agreement with all controversial clauses in Washington during a stopover on his way home from Canada...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/investment-accord-initialled-before-parliament-review.html
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Details of Indian project sought
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NEW DELHI, March 27: Pakistan sought technical details of the Tulbul navigation project from India on Tuesday.
On the first day of secretary-level talks being held here after a gap of nearly a year to resolve differences over the project launched in Indian-held Kashmir on Jhelum river, both countries stuck to their stands...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/details-of-indian-project-sought.html
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Steps ordered against anti-women jirgas
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, March 27: The Supreme Court issued orders on Tuesday to the provincial chief secretaries and inspectors general of police to ensure that girls and women were not exchanged to settle disputes through jirgas.
A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, had taken up a petition of Chairperson of the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW), Anis Haroon, against the jirga system and a case filed earlier by anthropologist Samar Minallah against the 'swara' custom...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/steps-ordered-against-anti-women-jirgas.html
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Kidnappers extend ransom deadline
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, March 27: The kidnappers holding five officials of the Balochistan Rural Support Programme (BRSP) have extended their deadline for ransom till April 10. The earlier deadline was March 25.
The issue was taken up by the Balochistan Assembly on Saturday and legislators had appealed to the kidnappers to extend the deadline by at least a month so that negotiations for the release of the kidnapped officials could be held properly...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/kidnappers-extend-ransom-deadline.html
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Terror group dismantled, says Iran
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TEHRAN, March 27: Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have dismantled a 'terrorist group' and killed one of its members, they said in a statement broadcast on state television on Tuesday.
"A terrorist group that wanted to infiltrate Iran to commit terrorist attacks has been dismantled," the statement said...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/terror-group-dismantled-says-iran.html
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Syria accepts Annan's peace plan
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BEIJING, March 27: Syria has accepted a proposal crafted by Kofi Annan that aims to end the bloodshed roiling the country, the envoy's spokesman said on Tuesday, in a move cautiously welcomed by Western states.
As monitors reported almost 10,000 dead in the year-long uprising, and with at least another 17 people killed on Tuesday, UN-Arab League envoy Annan in Beijing cautioned that implementing his six-point plan is the key to peace...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/syria-accepts-annans-peace-plan.html
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Zardari in UK
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ISLAMABAD, March 27: President Asif Ali Zardari is in London on a private visit.
"President Zardari has reached London on a private visit and will remain there for two to three days," President's spokesman Farhatullah Babar told Dawn on Tuesday...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/zardari-in-uk.html
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Al Qaeda suspect met 9/11 figure in Pakistan
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KOBLENZ (Germany), March 27: A German-Afghan man whose information prompted terrorism warnings across Europe in 2010 told a court on Tuesday he received orders from a senior Al Qaeda militant in Pakistan, and met a key member of the Hamburg Al Qaeda cell that included three of the Sept 11 suicide hijackers.
Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, 37, concluded four days of testimony before the Koblenz state court by admitting that he received orders from Al Qaeda's Younis al-Mauritani, who was apprehended in 2011 by Pakistani agents working with the CIA...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/al-qaeda-suspect-met-911-figure-in-pakistan.html
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Two US congressmen vow to back Balochistan insurgents
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, March 27: Repeating their anti-Pakistan mantra, two senior US Congressmen pledged to continue to press for Balochistan's secession even if Islamabad changed its alleged anti-US policies.
Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher and Louie Gohmert, however, told a news briefing in Washington that they did not have the power to provide weapons to Baloch fighters as they were not in the government...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/28/two-us-congressmen-vow-to-back-balochistan-insurgents.html
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