DINA for the Issue of March 18, 2012

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March 18, 2012 Sunday Rabi-us-Sani 24, 1433
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• Zardari's fifth address to parliament • PML-N leads boos: Long on claims, short on promises
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, March 17: A seemingly subdued President Asif Ali Zardari scored a new political milestone on Saturday, but his record fifth address to parliament in the face of a noisy opposition protest had no big promises for an election year.

A 35-minute prepared speech, about half of which was marred by loud opposition shouting, mainly recounted what the Pakistan People's Party-led coalition government did in its four difficult years and spoke little about its agenda for the last year of its term that will run out in March next year...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/zardaris-fifth-address-to-parliament-pml-n-leads-boos-long-on-claims-short-on-promises.html


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PML-N rejects president's assertions
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Pakistan Muslim League-N rejected on Saturday the claims made by President Asif Ali Zardari about the government's achievements and said he was perhaps speaking about some other country.

"There was nothing new in Zardari's speech other than false claims. (The) PPP has delivered nothing to the nation in four years. The president was talking about developments in some other country, and not in Pakistan," Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly, told newsmen outside the Parliament House after boycotting the president's speech...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/pml-n-rejects-presidents-assertions.html


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Zardari okayed Abbottabad raid: Ijaz: Wife urges commission to
hear Yasin Malik
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By Malik Asad
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The memo commission was approached from an unliklely quarter on Saturday when the wife of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik submitted an application to become a party in the case.

Mushaal Malik said an allegation levelled by Mansoor Ijaz, the American businessman, that he had arranged a meeting between her husband and C. D. Sahay, a former Indian intelligence chief, had damaged his reputation...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/zardari-okayed-abbottabad-raid-ijaz-wife-urges-commission-to-hear-yasin-malik.html


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Osama's family members remanded in custody
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By Our Reporter
ISLAMABAD, March 17: A court here on Saturday remanded members of the family of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in judicial custody for nine days.

Senior Civil Judge Sharukh Arjumand conducted hearings in the trial of Bin Laden's widows, Khairiah Hussain Sabir alias Ume Khalid, Shaim Sharif and Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, and daughters Mariam and Samina in a house on the Embassy Road. The house has been declared a sub-jail by the Islamabad chief commissioner. Nine children are also part of the family...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/osamas-family-members-remanded-in-custody.html


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Arundhati's exclusive to Dawn
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In an exclusive for Dawn, Arundhati Roy comes out with an expose of India's economic growth. "In India, the 300 million… who belong to the new, post-IMF 'reforms' middle class… live side by side with spirits of the nether world, the poltergeists of dead rivers, dry wells, bald mountains and denuded forests; the ghosts of 250,000 debt-ridden farmers who have killed themselves, and of the 800 million who have been impoverished and dispossessed to make way for us. And who survive on less than twenty rupees a day," writes the author of "The God of small things"...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/arundhatis-exclusive-to-dawn.html


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Strike in Karachi, other Sindh towns
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KARACHI, March 17: Karachi came to a standstill on Saturday in response to a call given by a businessmen's body, and supported by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, in order to show outrage over the growing menace of extortion.

Traders' representatives followed up the shutdown with a warning to the government to rid the city of the scourge within three days or be ready for a nationwide strike...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/strike-in-karachi-other-sindh-towns.html


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Sindh CM doesn't own car; Magsi richest MPA
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By Iftikhar A. Khan and Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Sindh Food Minister Mir Nadir Magsi retained the top spot on the list of the wealthiest members of the provincial assembly with assets valued at Rs1.51 billion.

According to statements of assets and liabilities submitted to the Election Commission, Mr Magsi inherited weapons worth Rs7.5 million and his personal addition to the arsenal amounts to Rs2.5 million...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/sindh-cm-doesnt-own-car-magsi-richest-mpa.html


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Supreme Court clarification
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REFERRING to the report published in Dawn on Friday under the headline "Documents on immunity stolen from house of SC official" and the clarification published on Saturday, the Supreme Court has further clarified that the news item ascribed to the Registrar was factually incorrect.

Mr Yousaf Jan, who is a Judicial Assistant working in record section in the Supreme Court of Pakistan at the principal seat in Islamabad, has nothing to do with research work in the Court, according to the statement...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/supreme-court-clarification.html


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23 killed in Orakzai
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KALAYA, March 17: Twenty-three suspected militants were killed when military planes targeted their positions in Dabori and Mamozai areas of Orakzai Agency on Saturday.

Officials said that 11 hideouts were destroyed in the volatile area...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/23-killed-in-orakzai.html


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SC official suspended
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By Munawer Azeem
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday announced the suspension of a judicial assistant while also stating that some study and research material had gone missing from the house of the suspended official, who worked in the record section of the court.

It was further stated in the press release that the Registrar of Supreme Court had placed under suspension Yousaf Jan Marwat and had initiated disciplinary proceedings against him under the Supreme Court (Appointment of Officers and Servants and Terms and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1982...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/sc-official-suspended.html


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Two FC men shot dead
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QUETTA, March 17: Two Frontier Corps personnel were killed when armed men opened fire on them in Sangsella area of Dera Bugti district on Saturday.

Confirming the incident, an FC spokesman said the personnel were patrolling the area on foot when they came under fire...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/two-fc-men-shot-dead.html


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Three girls die in Bara blast
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By Ibrahim Shinwari
LANDI KOTAL, March 17: Three teenage girls were killed in a bomb blast that occurred in Bara during a curfew break on Saturday.

Sources said the explosive device planted along a road went off when families were moving to safe places from Mandai Kas in Sipah area after the curfew was relaxed...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/three-girls-die-in-bara-blast.html


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Two held for attack on procession
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By Malik Irfanul Haq
RAHIM YAR KHAN, March 17: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two men for their alleged involvement in a bomb attack on a mourning procession in Khanpur.

Addressing a press conference, Regional Police Officer (RPO) Mohammad Abid Qadri said that Khanpur City SHO Ghulam Dastgeer was patrolling near Pakistan Chowk when he saw two suspicious men with shopping bags in their hands...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/two-held-for-attack-on-procession.html


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