DINA for the issue of May 28, 2012

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May 28, 2012 Monday Rajab 06, 1433
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PML-N decides to challenge speaker's ruling
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, May 27: The opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has decided to challenge in the Supreme Court National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza's ruling to save Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from disqualification.

PML-N MNA from Sialkot Khwaja Mohammad Asif will file the petition under Article 184(3) of the Constitution on Monday...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/petition-to-be-filed-in-sc-today-pml-n-decides-to-challenge-speakers-ruling/


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Establishment to blame for Balochistan mess: Fazl
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By Amanullah Kasi
QUETTA, May 27: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has claimed that his party can emerge as the largest group in the National Assembly if fair and transparent elections are held in the country but alleged that establishment is the main hurdle in its way.

Addressing the concluding session of a conference organised by his party in Kalat on Sunday, he said JUI-F was a major party having units throughout the country but the establishment was against it...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/establishment-to-blame-for-balochistan-mess-fazl/



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Ephedrine probe taken to PM's Secretariat
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By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD, May 27: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) is aggressively investigating the ephedrine scam, shifting its focus from the beneficiary drug companies and former ministry officials to the staff of the Prime Minister's Secretariat.

A source told Dawn that the ANF recently questioned the chief security officer of the PM House, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Imran Mahmood...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/ephedrine-probe-taken-to-pms-secretariat/


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Three killed in Quetta blast
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, May, 27: Three people were killed and eight others, among them a policeman, were injured when a bomb exploded in the Sariab road area of the city on Sunday.

Sources said the explosive device placed on a donkey cart was detonated through remote control when a van of the New Sariab police station was passing through the area...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/three-killed-in-quetta-blast/


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Budget on a tightrope
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By Khurram Husain
From the way Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh is talking these days, it seems like the budget is going to be just like the smile of the Mona Lisa: all things to all people.

In one venue he assures his audience that the budget will be "people friendly", and in another he assures a group of foreign investors that there will be "no new taxes". To an industry body he says the budget will be "growth oriented" and seek to create jobs, then elsewhere in a "pre-budget seminar" he says austerity measures are required to cut bank borrowing. In the same speech he says they plan to enhance the Public Sector Development Programme, and that "present economic policies will be continued"...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/budget-on-a-tightrope/


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Muttahida presents 'shadow' budget
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By Ikram Junaid
ISLAMABAD, May 27: The deputy convener of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Dr Farooq Sattar, presented a 'shadow budget' on Sunday, suggesting ways to cope with the financial crisis faced by the country.

He said the MQM was the first party in the country to have come up with a shadow budget...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/muttahida-presents-shadow-budget/


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Three bodies retrieved in Siachen sector
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By Ikram Junaidi
ISLAMABAD, May 27: A Pakistan Army team searching for those trapped by an avalanche in the Gyari sector of Siachen Glacier nearly seven weeks ago has found three bodies, officials said on Sunday.

According to a senior military officer, the bodies were moved to Goma. Talking to Dawn, he said the bodies would be sent to the hometowns by helicopter after they were identified, adding that doctors were trying to establish their identities...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/three-bodies-retrieved-in-siachen-sector/


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Afridi's sentence has strained ties with Pakistan: Panetta
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, May 27: The sentencing of Dr Shakil Afridi, who had helped the CIA trace Osama bin Laden, would not restore normal relations between the United States and Pakistan, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Sunday.

In an interview to ABC News, Mr Panetta also said that the US-Pakistani relationship remained "one of the most complicated we've had."..

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/afridis-sentence-has-strained-ties-with-pakistan-panetta/


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Six militants killed in Orakzai
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By Our Correspondent
KALAYA, May 27: Six militants were killed and two others injured in a gunfight with security forces in Gandi Tal area of Orakzai Agency on Sunday, official sources said.

They said the fighting started after militants attacked an army patrol from two sides. Troops backed by armoured personnel carriers repulsed the attack. Six militants were killed and two injured...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/six-militants-killed-in-orakzai-2/


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Soldier dies in grenade attack
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By Suhail Kakakhel
NOWSHERA, May 27: A security man died and five others were injured when a man lobbed hand grenade at a military convoy near the Risalpur Rashakai Interchange on the Motorway on Sunday.

Officials said the grenade hurled by the man on motorbike hit a double-cabin pick-up which was going from Upper Dir to Mansehra with other military vehicles...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/soldier-dies-in-grenade-attack/


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Afridi should get chance to defend himself: PM
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ISLAMABAD, May 27: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that Dr Shakil Afridi, who was sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping the CIA trace Osama bin Laden, should be given the opportunity to defend himself in higher courts, as per the law.

Answering a question during an interview to a private television channel, Mr Gilani said that whatever Dr Afridi did was wrong. However, he should get justice from the "normal courts"...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/afridi-should-get-chance-to-defend-himself-pm/


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Acid thrown on two women, child
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By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE, May 27: A minor girl and two women suffered burns in an acid attack in the city's Islampura area on Sunday.

According to police, 25-year-old Arooj Husnain of Krishan Nagar was going to Itwaar Bazaar along with her daughter Fatima, 2, and sister-in-law Saba, 22, on a rickshaw when two men on a motorcycle threw acid on them at about noon...

http://dawn.com/2012/05/28/acid-thrown-on-two-women-child/


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