DINA for the Issue of March 24, 2012

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March 24, 2012 Saturday Rabi-us-Sani 30, 1433
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Continuation of high-level contacts: White House confirms
Obama-Gilani meeting
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, March 23: The White House confirmed on Friday that US President Barack Obama would meet Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Seoul on Tuesday, after the Nuclear Security Summit in the South Korean capital.

"The meeting will be an opportunity for the United States and Pakistan to continue high-level consultations on areas of mutual interest," the White House said...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/24/continuation-of-high-level-contacts-white-house-confirms-obama-gilani-meeting.html


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Petrol to fuel Pakistan-India quest for peace
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, March 23: Pakistan's national day was celebrated in Delhi amid rare bonhomie at its high commission in New Delhi on Friday, the pleasant nippy air mingling nicely with news of swift progress towards petrol imports from India.

Pakistan's leading lawyer and human rights icon Asma Jahangir was in attendance at the festivities at the head of a lawyers' delegation...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/24/petrol-to-fuel-pakistan-india-quest-for-peace.html


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Pakistan can't afford to invite US wrath, says Bilour
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By Khalid Hasnain
LAHORE, March 23: Awami National Party's leader and federal Minister for Railways Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has called for reopening Nato supply routes with some conditions "in the larger national interest".

The nation was not in a position to take on the United States and face its wrath, he said while talking to Dawn here on Friday...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/24/pakistan-can-t-afford-to-invite-us-wrath-says-bilour.html


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Three FC men killed in Taliban attack
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QUETTA, March 23: Three Frontier Corps personnel, a non-commissioned officer among them, were killed and five others were injured in an attack on their checkpost in Mir Alikhail area close to Pakistan-Afghan border on Friday morning.

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack. There were reports that five FC men were missing, but official sources did not confirm it...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/24/three-fc-men-killed-in-taliban-attack.html


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Nawaz blames PPP, allies for country's woes
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By Mansoor Malik
LAHORE, March 23: PML-N President Nawaz Sharif accused the PPP government on Friday of indulging in corruption and blamed it for the economic crisis faced by the country. According to him, PPP's coalition partners were equally responsible for the country's problems.

"The PPP's coalition government is responsible for inflation, loadshedding, halting the wheel of industrial development and pushing people towards a crisis-like situation," Mr Sharif said at a ceremony held at the Punjab University for distribution of laptop computers among students...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/24/nawaz-blames-ppp-allies-for-country-s-woes.html


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President confers civil awards on 67: Top national award for Nusrat Bhutto, Salman Taseer
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By Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, March 23: President Asif Ali Zardari conferred national civil awards on 67 distinguished individuals, including five foreign nationals, at a ceremony held at the Aiwan-i-Sadr here on Friday.

The ceremony, held each year on Pakistan Day, was attended by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza, three services chiefs, federal ministers, senior civil and military officers, diplomats and prominent personalities from all walks of life. Pakistan People's Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was also present...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/24/president-confers-civil-awards-on-67-top-national-award-for-nusrat-bhutto-salman-taseer.html


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Balochistan governor seeks army's role in dialogue with nationalists
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By Our Staff Correspondent
QUETTA, March 23: Provincial Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi has said that Balochistan issue cannot be resolved without involving all stakeholders, including the government, the army and intelligence agencies, in dialogue with the estranged Baloch nationalist leaders.

He was talking to journalists after distributing among dignitaries national awards at a Pakistan Day function in the Governor's House on Friday...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/24/balochistan-governor-seeks-armys-role-in-dialogue-with-nationalists.html


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Afridi loses temper at airport
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KARACHI, March 23: Cricketer Shahid Afridi attacked a fan at Karachi airport on Friday after he returned home from Dhaka where Pakistan won the Asia Cup final.

Television channels showed that Afridi first pushed a youth to the ground and then slapped him before his brother intervened and pulled him away in a melee...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/24/afridi-loses-temper-at-airport.html


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EU authorises strikes on Somalia pirates' lairs
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BRUSSELS, March 23: The European Union authorised its navies to strike Somali pirate equipment on land as foreign ministers on Friday beefed up the anti-piracy mission and extended it until December 2014.

The EU's Operation Atalanta has deployed between five and 10 warships off the Somali coast since 2008 to escort humanitarian aid shipments and thwart pirate raids on commercial vessels using vital shipping lanes...

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/24/eu-authorises-strikes-on-somalia-pirates-lairs.html


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