DINA for the issue of September 9, 2012

	Sunday, September 9, 2012 | Shawwal 21, 1433
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Pak, India shy away from core issues By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: Notwithstanding the bonhomie exhibited at the Foreign Office on Saturday at the conclusion of the foreign ministers’ meetings, it was more than apparent that both sides were dissatisfied for their set of core issues not having been addressed adequately over the past two years...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
ANF declares Musa, Shahab absconders By Malik Asad RAWALPINDI, Sept 8: The Anti-Narcotics Force declared on Saturday federal Textiles Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin, former prime minister’s son Ali Musa Gilani and former principal secretary to the prime minister Khushnood Akhtar Lashari absconders in its fourth challan submitted to the Control of Narcotics Substances (CNS) court in connection with the ephedrine case. According to the challan submitted by ANF Deputy Director Abid Zulfiqar, former director general of health Dr Asad Hafeez misused his authority in allocation and local sale conversion of 2,500kg ephedrine to two pharmaceutical companies – Berlex Lab International and Danas Pharmaceutical...
Christian girl sees ’copter drama after release By Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: The Christian girl accused of blasphemy was airlifted from Adiyala jail on Saturday and shifted to an unspecified place in Islamabad under the protective custody of police after completion of legal formalities by her lawyers. Her counsel Tahir Naveed Chaudhry and a senior police officer said the girl would be shifted to a safe place in another city with her family...
Visa restrictions relaxed By Iftikhar A Khan ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India on Saturday signed a landmark liberalised visa pact, introducing for the first time visa on arrival for senior citizens, tourist and pilgrim visa and one-year multiple entry visa for businessmen. Time-bound visa approval for all the categories and exemption from police reporting in different categories are some of the significant features of the agreement signed between Interior Minister Rehman Malik and the visiting Indian Minister for External Affairs S.M. Krishna...
Economy uncertain as elections loom By Khurram Husain KARACHI, Sept 8: Pakistan is entering a historic election cycle with key vulnerabilities growing within the economy. Given the uncertainties involved in the election cycle, a danger that worries many people is a sharply deteriorating economic situation in the midst of a noisy and chaotic transfer of power. Most eyes are on the foreign exchange reserves these days. Does Pakistan have sufficient reserves to prevent a dramatic slide in the value of the rupee over the course of the next nine to ten months?...
Tehsil in Bajaur cleared of militants By Our Correspondent KHAR, Sept 8: Security forces have regained control of Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur Agency as militants have fled Batwar and other areas along the border with Afghanistan, official sources said. An official told Dawn on Saturday that security forces backed by the Salarzai Qaumi Lashkar pushed back the militants who had sneaked into several areas of Pakistan from Afghanistan’s Kunar province...
Sindh local govt ordinance: PML-N backs strike call by nationalists By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI, Sept 8: Although the Pakistan Muslim League-N does not have any representation in the Sindh Assembly, it has decided to support other parties in rejection of the structure. On Saturday, it declared support to the strike call given by nationalist parties in protest against the ordinance. Syed Ghaus Ali Shah, its Sindh chief, announced the decision at a press conference on Saturday...
Rain forecast for south Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan By Intikhab Hanif and Amin Ahmed LAHORE / ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: Rain, heavy at places, lashed the country on Saturday and weathermen said there were chances of heavy downpour in south Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan on Sunday. Flash floods are expected in nullahs and hill channels of Dera Ghazi Khan, Nasirabad, Sibi and Zhob divisions. And landslides are feared in Azad Kashmir...
Palestinians to make UN bid on 27th RAMALLAH, Sept 8: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he would make a bid on September 27 to obtain non-member status at the United Nations. “We will go to the UN General Assembly for consultations with our friends on the draft resolution calling for the upgrade of Palestine (to non-member status)” in the United Nations, Abbas said in a televised address...
Money matters RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says that government employees will not receive full salaries this month because donor countries have not delivered promised aid. The US and Arab countries have failed to come through this year with the aid money they have pledged, leaving the Palestinian Authority that governs much of the West Bank in a budgetary shortfall that has contributed to rising prices and delays in the payment of government salaries. The economic conditions have helped spark small but growing protests in the West Bank. Last week demonstrators halted traffic in key Palestinian cities...
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