DINA for the issue of September 04, 2012

	Tuesday 4th September 2012 | Shawwal 16, 1433
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Interim set-up, new provinces PPP, PML-N engaged in ‘serious talks’ By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: The opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz publicly denies holding talks with the government on a future interim set-up, but privately its leaders confirm that Senator Ishaq Dar is engaged in serious negotiations with the PPP and the third round of their talks is scheduled for Tuesday.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 25.58 Points: KARACHI, Sep 03: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 15417.16, up 25.58 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Sept 03: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95 to the US Dollar in the open market.
N. Waziristan placed under indefinite curfew MIRAMSHAH, Sept 3: The political administration imposed a curfew in North Waziristan on Monday for an indefinite period after a bomb attack left two security men injured. Officials said a military vehicle was targeted with an improvised explosive device planted on the under-construction Bannu-Ghulam Khan road. The vehicle was partially damaged and two troops were injured.
Suicide attack on US consulate SUV kills 2 By Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR, Sept 3: Two people were killed and 21 others, among them two Americans, wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a SUV of the US Consulate on Abdara Road in University Town here on Monday morning. Initial report suggested that two Americans died in the attack, but government officials and a US embassy spokesman said the US personnel and their two Pakistani guards were injured.
CJ annoyed over law, order in Balochistan By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Sept 3: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry expressed anger on Monday over the law and order situation in Balochistan and said the provincial government had failed to control the situation. He rejected a claim made by the advocate general of Balochistan about improvement in law and order, saying that the killing of people was continuing and even a district and sessions judge was gunned down in broad daylight.
NA walkouts by govt allies and foes By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Both government allies and foes staged walkouts on the opening day of a National Assembly session on Monday mainly over higher petroleum prices and sectarian violence before the house decided to hold a law and order debate with the interior minister promising to unveil ‘conspiracies’ The separate walkouts by the government-allied MQM and ANP to protest at the latest increase in the prices of petroleum products and by the PML-N over this and other perceived government ‘failures’ came after the elder son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani replaced his father in the house with a thunder.
Court summons officials over Rs8bn IPP dues By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: The Supreme Court summoned on Monday secretaries of ministries of finance and water and power for having reneged on a plan to pay Rs8 billion to independent power producers. During previous proceedings, the Supreme Court was informed that under an agreement reached with the government the IPPs would receive Rs8 billion by Aug 30 of the Rs45 billion which is to be paid to them in three instalments.
PPP, MQM to resolve LB issue, says Zardari By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI, Sept 3: President Asif Ali Zardari expressed the hope on Monday that Pakistan People’s Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement would soon be able to reach an accord on the new local government system in Sindh leading to local bodies’ elections in the province. The president, who presided over a meeting of PPP and MQM leaders at the Bilawal House here, discussed with them the issue of local bodies and law and order in the province.
All seized artefacts not fake: report By Idrees Bakhtiar KARACHI, Sept 3: Not all Gandhara artefacts confiscated a few months ago in Karachi are counterfeit, a final report by the Archaeological Department of Sindh has concluded. At least 161 items, out of 395, have been found to be genuine antiquities, some of them 2,000 years old, and are worth billions of rupees, the director of the department, Qasim Ali Qasim, told Dawn that 72 of the genuine antiquities were metal objects and the rest made of stone. About 234 other relics are counterfeit, but “still have an art value”, he said.
India urged to end impunity for armed forces By Masood Haider NEW YORK, Sept 3: The Human Rights Watch has urged India to accept the recommendations made by member states at the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to address its most serious human rights problems. The wide-ranging recommendations call upon India to ratify multinational treaties against torture and enforced disappearances, repeal the much-abused Armed Forces Special Powers Act, impose a moratorium on the death penalty, introduce an anti-discrimination law and protect the rights of women, children, Dalits, tribal groups, religious minorities and other groups at risk.
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