DINA for the issue of August 08, 2012

	Wednesday, August 08, 2012 I Ramazan 19, 1433
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PPP resolves not to write letter By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: The People’s Party will not write a letter to Swiss authorities for reopening cases against President Asif Zardari and will ‘resist’ actions by the Supreme Court within bounds of the Constitution, the PPP resolved on the eve of Wednesday’s hearing in the NRO implementation case. . The PPP’s frontline leaders met in the presidency on Tuesday night and chalked out a strategy to cope with the situation if the Supreme Court showed the door to the prime minister for contempt of court over not obeying its orders in connection with writing the letter....	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 20.92 Points: KARACHI, Aug 07: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 14652.85, down 20.92 points Forex Update: KARACHI, Aug 07: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 94.8 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Power system may collapse soon, Senate committee told By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: It was officially stated in the Senate’s Standing Committee on Water and Power on Tuesday that a military control of the power sector in the early 90s had failed and that the power transmission system was going to collapse in four years. “That (military) operation was not a success, I can openly state,” Tahir Basharat Cheema, former managing director of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) and now chief of the ministry of power’s energy management cell, said at a meeting of the committee presided over by its chairman Zahid Khan of the Awami National Party...
Army denies joint operation in Waziristan By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: The army said on Tuesday it was carrying out targeted actions against militants in North Waziristan, but denied planning joint operations with the United States. “Targeted actions in Operation Tight Screw (OTS) by Pakistan Army against militants in North Waziristan … being undertaken since the beginning of this year,” a senior military officer said...
Ogra ex-chief accused of causing Rs83bn loss to exchequer By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: The National Accountability Bureau submitted to the Supreme Court on Tuesday a report in which former chairman of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Tauqir Sadiq has been accused of causing a loss of Rs83 billion to the national exchequer. Mr Sadiq is said to be a close relative of PPP’s Secretary General Senator Jahangir Badar...
Imran prepares pitch for legal battle By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), the opposition parties engaged these days in a war of words, are about to enter a legal battle as Imran Khan announced on Tuesday that he would sue PML-N leader Khwaja Asif for levelling ‘false allegations’ against him and his charity hospital. “I request the chief justice to take up this case immediately as elections are near and the PML-N wants to run its whole campaign by targeting the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital,” Mr Khan said at a press conference at his party’s central secretariat....
4 security men killed in bomb attack By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, Aug 7: Four personnel of the Balochistan Constabulary were killed and 12 others injured in a bomb attack near the Sami area of Kech district on Tuesday night. Official sources said that two trucks carrying BC personnel were on their way to Turbat when a powerful blast took place close to one of the vehicles...
Aitzaz: judicial activism injudicious in some cases LONDON, Aug 7: PPP Senator and prominent lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan, who was the lead counsel of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the NRO implementation case, has expressed reservations over judicial activism and says it is not being used in equal measure on all matters. In an interview with BBC News on Tuesday, he said the judiciary was independent and in fact ‘too independent’ and ‘at times even independent of the Constitution’...
Aussies put Pakistan out of medal race with 7-0 rout By Mohammad Yaqoob WORLD champions Australia justified their top rank status in world hockey with a resounding 7-0 victory against a lifeless Pakistan side, ousting them from the semi-finals race at the Riverbank Arena here on Tuesday. The massive defeat in their last Group ‘A’ match also condemned Pakistan to a fourth-place finish behind Spain, who drew 1-1 with Great Britain...
Britain set best gold total in 100 years LONDON, Aug 7: Hosts Britain surpassed the heroics of four years ago, when they picked up 19 golds, by amassing 22 and counting while also winning more gold medals than at any Summer Games in the last 100 years. At the velodrome on Tuesday, where the crowd’s roars were deafening, Chris Hoy won his seventh Olympic medal, and sixth gold, with victory in the keirin, taking him past rowing great Steve Redgrave’s five golds.He also matched fellow cyclist Bradley Wiggins as Britain’s most decorated Olympian, although Wiggins has only four golds...
Medals table (At 1230am PST on Wednesday) Country G S B T . China 34 21 18 73 United States 30 16 20 66...
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