DINA for the issue of September 28 , 2012.

	Friday 28th September 2012 | Ziqa'ad 10, 1433
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Pakistan endorses drones, rejects method: Khar By Masood Haider and Anwar Iqbal NEW YORK, Sept 27: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday that Pakistan did not disagree with the use of drones to kill militants but could not approve its illegal method...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 30.21 Points: KARACHI, Sept 27: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 15369.21, down 30.21 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Sept 27: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95 to the US Dollar in the open market.
‘Enforced disappearances cause of unrest’ : Mengal submits six-point plan on Balochistan By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: After having remained silent during three years of self-imposed exile, Balochistan’s former chief minister Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal finally spoke his mind in the Supreme Court on Thursday and described enforced disappearances as the real cause of the current unrest in Balochistan. “Why should not we divorce peacefully rather than seeking for a bloody divorce if the rulers have decided to keep on giving us mutilated dead bodies,” Sardar Mengal said before a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain...
Voting plan for expatriates opposed By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: A plan for exercise of voting right by about 3.7 million overseas Pakistanis has hit a snag with most political parties opposing the idea in the absence of a feasible mechanism. According to sources, representatives of a majority of mainstream parties invited by the Election Commission on Thursday for a marathon consultative session on matters relating to the coming polls expressed the fear that bogus votes would be polled through postal ballots unless a well thought-out mode was evolved to enable the overseas Pakistanis to vote...
Quadrilateral summit put off: Russian president cancels visit By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: In a diplomatic setback for Pakistan, Russian President Vladimir Putin has cancelled his scheduled visit to Islamabad, forcing postponement of a quadrilateral summit involving Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Afghanistan planned for October 2-3. “The Quadrilateral Summit (Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Afghanistan), which was planned in Islamabad from 2-3 October 2012, is being rescheduled,” a brief statement by the Foreign Office said on Thursday...
SC registrar asks police to probe Abidi’s outbursts By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: On a written directive of the Supreme Court registrar, Islamabad police started contacting the TV anchorpersons who recently hosted interviews with Senator Faisal Raza Abidi in which the firebrand PPP leader passed highly critical remarks against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. A letter titled “Probe into some biased TV programmes against the honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan” has been sent to the anchorpersons/producers of private TV channels and PTV. It was issued by the office of Islamabad IG and signed by Assistant Inspector General Tahir Alam Khan...
NAB plea for transfer of FIA wings rejected By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, who has been facing an inquiry by the National Accountability Bureau in the RPPs case, has rejected a proposal of handing over FIA’s anti-corruption and economic crimes wings to the bureau. According to a letter issued by the PM’s secretariat, the prime minister turned down the NAB proposal of handing over the two wings that had worked under the bureau from 2004 to 2008...
EU grant for flood-hit people BRUSSELS, Sept 27: The European Commission said on Thursday it would release another 15 million euros ($19 million) in aid to Pakistan where tens of thousands of people were affected by flood and unrest. The money takes the 2012 total for Pakistan to 70 million and will be earmarked for those affected by ongoing conflict in the north of the country as well as victims of a third successive year of heavy flooding in the south...
Pakistan hopes India will repatriate boy By Our Correspondent NEW DELHI, Sept 27: Just when the focus was shifting to business and trade volumes with a generous visa regime to assist the more privileged travellers, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has spurred the country’s mission in New Delhi to act on a very old human problem — people not knowing where the India-Pakistan boundary begins or ends which finds them straying into a virtual nightmare ever so often. For the first time the HRCP has directly approached the High Commission in India to help repatriate a 13-year-old boy from Okara district...
Commission on provinces yet to prepare rules By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: The 30-day period given to the controversial Parliamentary Commission on Creation of New Provinces in Punjab to submit its recommendations to the National Assembly ended on Thursday with the commission having failed to prepare even its rules and terms of reference (ToRs). The first formal meeting of the commission headed by Senator Farhatullah Babar of the ruling PPP was held on Aug 29 and it has since held four meetings, but without going beyond a briefing from Law Minister Farooq Naek on technical and legal points related to its functioning...
Bus route to UK planned MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 27: Authorities in Pakistan are planning to launch a bus route from the Azad Kashmir town of Mirpur to the British city of Birmingham — 8,000 kilometres away. The mammoth journey would take travellers through some of the most dangerous areas of Pakistan on their way to Iran, Turkey and Europe before reaching the Midlands city after around eight days, officials said. Tahir Khokhar, the transport minister of Azad Kashmir, said the fare would be around Rs20,000.—AFP
‘Soldier, three militants killed’ By Syed Zahid Jan UPPER DIR, Sept 27: A soldier and three militants were killed when security forces repulsed a cross-border attack on Wednesday night, sources said. The incident took place in Karakar area of Brawal tehsil near the Afghan border in the Upper Dir district...
Eradicating polio national priority UNITED NATIONS, Sept 27: President Asif Ali Zardari assured the international community on Thursday that eradicating polio was now a national priority as Pakistan joined Nigeria and Afghanistan as one of only three nations in the world where polio was still a major problem. “We are making real progress and polio cases over the last year are down by two-thirds in Pakistan,” the president told a UN-sponsored conference in New York aimed at rooting out the diseases that cripples children...
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