DINA for the issue of August 17, 2012

	Friday, August 17, 2012 | Ramazan 28, 1433
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Terrorists attack Kamra air base: • Nine attackers dead • Plane damaged By Yaqoob Malik KAMRA, Aug 16: Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons carried out a brazen attack under cover of darkness on the Minhas base of the Pakistan Air Force at Kamra before dawn on Thursday. Eight militants were eliminated during the gunbattle that raged for hours after the raid while one soldier also lost his life...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 27.92 Points: KARACHI, Aug 16: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 14998.85, up 27.92 points. Forex Update: KARACHI, Aug 16: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 94.5 to the US Dollar in the open market.
19 pulled out of buses, shot dead in sectarian attack By Nisar Ahmad Khan MANSEHRA, Aug 16: Terrorists ambushed four buses, pulled out the passengers and shot at least 19 of them dead in the Babusar Top area of Mansehra district on Thursday. Before killing the passengers, the assailants had checked their identity cards and shot them because they were Shia...
Fourth assault on Kamra base since 2007 By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: The pre-dawn attack on the PAF base in Kamra on Thursday was the fourth such attack since 2007 bombing of a bus near the entrance, followed by rocket attacks on the base in 2008, and a suicide bombing on a service road leading to the base in 2009. The attack came against the backdrop of reports that Pakistan was planning to launch a massive offensive against Taliban sanctuaries in North Waziristan...
Breather for govt in NRO case By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: In a significant development the Supreme Court granted to the government on Thursday a much-needed break that may help defuse a perceived standoff between the executive and the judiciary. A five-judge bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa put off for an indefinite period the hearing of a government petition seeking review of the court’s July 12 order which directed the prime minister to comply with its judgment in the NRO implementation case. But the court made it clear that the postponement should not be considered as a stay...
No decision yet about operation in North Waziristan By Ismail Khan PESHAWAR, Aug 16: A senior military commander on Thursday dismissed as ‘speculative’ reports of an impending military operation in the militants-infested North Waziristan and insisted that no decision had been taken so far. “It doesn’t seem so,” responded Corps Commander Lt Gen Khalid Rabbani when asked if a military operation in North Waziristan tribal region was imminent. “No such decision is in front of me,” he said...
Afghan reconciliation: Zardari seeks Muslim countries’ assistance MAKKAH, Aug 16: President Asif Ali Zardari has urged the heads of Muslim states and governments to help Pakistan in its peace and reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan. Addressing the 4th summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference here on Thursday, President Zardari said Pakistan had been badly affected by the unrest in Afghanistan and the fallout of the Mujahideen resistance to the former Soviet Union was still haunting it...
OIC suspends Syria; Iran unhappy MAKKAH, Aug 16: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation suspended Syria on Thursday, citing President Bashar al-Assad’s suppression of the Syrian revolt, but there was little support for direct military involvement in Syria at a summit of Muslim leaders in Makkah. Host Saudi Arabia has led Arab efforts to isolate Syria diplomatically and also backed calls for the Syrian rebel opposition to be armed, which Foreign Minister Saud al-Fasial described in February as `an excellent idea’...
Three Hazara men shot dead in Quetta QUETTA, Aug 16: Three people of the Hazara Shia community were killed in the city’s Arbab Karam Khan Road area on Thursday. Police sources told Dawn that the three were going to Hazara Town in a motor-rickshaw when gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on them and escaped...
Terrorists cannot access Pakistani nukes, says US By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Aug 16: The United States said on Thursday that despite a daring terrorist attack on the Kamra airbase, it had no reasons to believe that the militants could access Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. The assurance came from both the State Department and the Pentagon as the Pakistanis also tried to assure the world that recent terrorist attacks posed no threat to their nuclear arsenal...
Judiciary performing functions within constitutional domain: CJ By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said the judiciary always occupied the highest pedestal among all organs of the state in any democratic set-up. “Judiciary today is the greatest unifying and integrating force of this country and being fully conversant of its basic duty to protect the rights of citizens as well as institutions against constitutional excesses, it is performing functions purely within the constitutional domain,” he said while speaking at a full court reference organised in the Supreme Court on Thursday to bid farewell to Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan on attaining the age of superannuation. In a departure from his usual practice, the chief justice delivered the speech in Urdu, instead of English...
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