DINA for the Issue of March 05, 2012

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D A W N I n t e r n e t N e w s A l e r t
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March 05, 2012 Monday Rabi-us-Sani 11, 1433
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Afghan camps for Baloch militants shut
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By Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, March 4: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday that Afghanistan had closed the training camps of Baloch separatists in that country, adding that this was done at the intervention of Afghan President Hamid Karzai who had admitted recently that some of the troubles in Balochistan were originating from his country.

"After we approached the honourable President of Afghanistan with facts and figures he was kind enough to look into the matter by promising to stop infiltration of miscreants from his side of the border," the interior minister told newsmen during a visit to the National Press Club...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/05/karzai-acted-against-separatists-malik-afghan-camps-for-baloch-militants-shut.html


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Nawaz, Shujaat ask each other to apologise for supporting dictators
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By Zulqernain Tahir
LAHORE, March 4: PML-N president Nawaz Sharif has said his party is ready to shake hands with the Chaudhrys of Gujrat if they apologise to the nation for having supported dictatorship and pledge never to do it again.

"We will welcome the Chaudhry brothers (Shujaat Hussain and Pervaiz Elahi) if they promise not to support dictatorship in future, besides apologising to the nation (for supporting Gen Musharraf)," Mr Sharif said while responding to a question at a press conference at his Raiwind residence where PML-Q's former MNA Marvi Memon joined the PML-N...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/05/nawaz-shujaat-ask-each-other-to-apologise-for-supporting-dictators.html


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Tarbela may reach 'dead level' in two days
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, March 4: The Tarbela dam is estimated to touch its 'dead level' in about two days because of substantial and unaccounted for discharge of water in recent weeks.

This means there will be no carryover stock of water for the upcoming Rabi season and that generation of electricity at the dam will be adversely affected in the coming days, according to an official...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/05/tarbela-may-reach-dead-level-in-two-days.html


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PML-N set to get opposition leader's post in Senate
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, March 4: After becoming the single largest opposition party with 14 senators, the PML-N looks set to get the office of the opposition leader in the upper house. This will also end its tussle with the JUI-F on the issue.

PML-N stalwart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is leader of the opposition in the National Assembly and now Ishaq Dar, the party's parliamentary leader in the Senate, who has returned unopposed on a technocrat seat from Punjab, will get the office in the upper house...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/05/pml-n-set-to-get-opposition-leaders-post-in-senate.html


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Delays complicate efforts to rebuild ties with US
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, March 4: Pakistan has once again postponed, to March 17, a final parliamentary review of its relations with the United States, causing a lot of confusion and frustration in the US capital where the delay is seen as deliberate.

The most urgent call for expediting the parliamentary process came from General William Fraser, commander of the US Transport Command, who said that overland cargo routes through Pakistan must be reopened for the United States to complete its pullout from Afghanistan by the end of 2014...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/05/delays-complicate-efforts-to-rebuild-ties-with-us.html


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Afghan army chief warns against another Nato blunder
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KABUL, March 4: The burning of copies of holy Quran at a Nato base in Afghanistan advanced the cause of Taliban and any repeat of similar "negligence" by western forces will be disastrous, the Afghan army chief of staff has warned.

The desecration of the holy book triggered widespread protests and fatal attacks on US troops and strained ties between Kabul and Washington...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/05/afghan-army-chief-warns-against-another-nato-blunder.html

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DSP among three hurt in attack
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By Irfan Mughal
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, March 4: A deputy superintendent of police and two guards were wounded when a suicide bomber attacked their vehicle here on Sunday night, officials said.

DPO Suhail Khalid told Dawn that a suicide bomber, hiding in a street, ran towards the police vehicle and detonated explosives strapped to his body when the vehicle reached Bazaar Misgran in Dera city...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/05/dsp-among-three-hurt-in-attack.html


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Indian Muslims also oppose shooting of Osama film
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, March 4: A Hollywood film on Osama bin Laden being filmed in Chandigarh has found rightwing Hindus, Muslims and local traders making a common cause against the shooting, The Hindu newspaper said on Sunday.

It said after the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), it was the turn of a Muslim outfit on Saturday to protest the shooting of Kathryn Bigelow's film on Osama bin Laden in the Indian city. The Muslim outfit said the shooting would disturb the peaceful atmosphere between the communities in a secular country...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/05/indian-muslims-also-oppose-shooting-of-osama-film.html


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