DINA for the issue of September 16, 2012

	Sunday, September 16, 2012 | Shawwal 28, 1433
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600,000 marooned in two districts QUETTA, Sept 15: Balochistan Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad has said that floods triggered by torrential rains have marooned almost 600,000 people in Naseerabad and Jaffarabad districts...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
UN team spends busy day in Quetta By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Sept 15: A delegation of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances headed by Olivier de Frouville discussed the issue of missing persons with delegations of various groups and political parties here on Saturday. The UN officials met Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad and Home Secretary Nasibullah Bazai to learn about the official version on the complaints lodged by political groups and parties about the cases involving missing persons and human rights violations in the province...
Ties with US to focus on terror fight, market access By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: As Marc Grossman, the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, wrapped up his two-day visit on Saturday, it became clear that in future Pak-US ties would be centred around counter-terrorism cooperation, improving market access and economic opportunities for this country and aiding democracy and civil society. Accordingly, the two sides would be reviving related segments of the strategic dialogue in the hope of resumption of a full-spectrum dialogue...
Zardari calls for end to drone strikes President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday reiterated demand for ending US drone attacks on militants in its tribal areas and called for removing a “trust deficit” with the United States. Mr Zardari’s remarks came during talks with US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman...
AG’s witness list includes CJ, Gilani ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Attorney General Irfan Qadir submitted to the Supreme Court on Saturday a list of witnesses, which included the name of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, in a contempt of court case against property tycoon Malik Riaz of Bahria Town. The names of Dr Arsalan Iftikhar, son of the chief justice, Supreme Court Registrar Dr Faqir Hussain, former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Salman Ahmed, son-in-law of Malik Riaz, also figure in the list...
Info ministry fund to be made more secret By Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Amid the controversy revolving around the secret fund of the information ministry, the government has decided to change the name of the head ‘Secret Service Expenditure’ in the next budget. “We are seriously considering changing this head’s name to something like ‘discretionary fund” in the budget for 2013-14,” Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told Dawn...
Detailed judgment in contempt case: courts have right to evaluate executive actions By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: The Supreme Court declared on Saturday that any threat to independence of the judiciary would amount to denial of access to justice, a fundamental right under the Constitution, and the courts had to exercise their powers and jurisdiction to secure the rights of citizens against arbitrary violations. While protecting and enforcing the fundamental rights, the courts might also determine the legality of an executive action, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said in the134-page detailed verdict explaining why a five-judge bench annulled a hurriedly made Contempt of Court Act (COCA), 2012, on Aug 3. The order included additional notes by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain...
Writer Hajra Masroor passes away By Peerzada Salman KARACHI, Sept 15: Distinguished writer Hajra Masroor passed away after a protracted illness here on Saturday. She was 82. Hajra was one of the pioneers of feminism in the subcontinent and a torchbearer of the Progressive Writers Movement...
Accountability court suspends proceedings By Malik Asad RAWALPINDI, Sept 15: An accountability court on Saturday stopped its proceedings on three corruption references against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and members of his family after their counsel submitted a restraining order of the Lahore High Court to it. Judge Chaudhry Abdul Haq had taken up an application filed by the National Accountability Bureau seeking revival of three corruption references relating to Hudabiya Paper Mills, Ittefaq Foundries and Raiwind assets in which members of the Sharif family are allegedly involved...
Maker of hate film questioned by police LOS ANGELES, Sept 15: The alleged maker of a provocative anti-Islam movie that has sparked violent protests across the Muslim world was briefly taken early on Saturday to a California police station for questioning by his probation officer. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was “given a ride” by sheriff’s deputies from his Cerritos, California, home shortly after midnight to the interview, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Don Walker said...
Achakzai also turns down PML-N offer By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: The PML-N’s olive branch to Balochistan appears to have not borne fruit as the two nominees from the restive province in its list of possible premiers have refused to accept the coveted slot in the future interim set-up. Sources told Dawn on Saturday that Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai had conveyed to the PML-N leadership that he was not ready to accept the offer to become a caretaker prime minister before the general election...
Brahimi meets Assad, warns of world threat DAMASCUS, Sept 15: International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warned after meeting President Bashar Al Assad on Saturday that the worsening conflict in Syria threatened both the region and the world at large. Russia, a strong ally of Syria, insisted it was not `clinging’ to any particular leader in Syria, but warned it would block any new UN Security Council resolution aimed at pressuring Mr Assad...
Harry’s camp attacked KANDAHAR, Sept 15: Taliban armed with suicide vests, guns and rockets stormed a heavily fortified airfield in Afghanistan where Prince Harry is deployed, killing two US Marines and attacking aircraft in a major security breach on Friday night. The militia said it carried out the assault to avenge a US-made film deemed insulting to Islam that has sparked deadly riots across the Middle East and North Africa...
ANP rules out poll alliance with PPP PESHAWAR, Sept 15: A senior leader of the Awami National Party, Senator Ilyas Ahmed Bilour, has said that his party will not enter into an electoral alliance with the Pakistan People’s Party in the coming election. Talking to reporters after laying the foundation stone of Shabbir Ahmed Bilour surgical intensive care unit at the Lady Reading Hospital on Saturday, he said the ANP would contest the election on its own and would win because the party “believes in serving people”...
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