DINA for the issue of October 09, 2012

	Tuesday 9th October 2012 | Ziqa'ad 21, 1433
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Tackle Balochistan issue in earnest, CJ asks govt By Amanullah Kasi QUETTA, Oct 8: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry observed on Monday that the government should take the Balochistan issue seriously and come up with a workable solution to the crisis...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 124.66 Points: KARACHI, Oct 08: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 15629.73, down 124.66 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Oct 08: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95.5 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Drafts referred to NA committee: Accountability, investigation bills introduced By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: After three years of wrangling, the government brought a new accountability bill to the National Assembly on Monday, aimed at creating an independent accountability commission to prosecute corruption by holders of public offices, and another one to authorise the use of modern techniques to investigate crimes like terrorism and against national security. While introducing the two drafts in the face of some hard criticism from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N and a member of the government-allied Awami National Party over the withdrawal of an earlier and controversial accountability bill, Law and Justice Minister Farooq Naek sought their early passage...
Doctor shot dead in Khuzdar By Our Correspondent QUETTA, Oct 8: Armed men gunned down a senior medical officer of Khuzdar civil hospital on Monday. According to police, Dr Dawood Aziz Jan was going to hospital from his house when assailants on a motorbike opened fire on him and fled. Dr Jan died on the spot...
Many leading Pakistani cricketers don’t file tax returns By Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: Cricket is big entertainment and now big money as well. And those playing the game hit as many boundaries with the money as they do with the ball. Though this is not news, details of the FBR’s tax profiles of national cricketers highlight the nationwide tendency not to pay taxes or ignore the paperwork in this regard...
Loadshedding of CNG likely to be increased By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: The government is likely to increase gas loadshedding for the transport sector to more than four days in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and two days in Sindh during winter as it grapples with providing uninterrupted supplies to residential consumers amid widening gap between demand and supply. According to a senior government official, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf was informed during his visit to the petroleum ministry on Monday about the rising demand in the domestic sector as a result of over 40,585km of additional lines laid over the past four years for 1.6 million new consumers...
EC to discuss nationality issue today By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Oct 8: Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim has said any decision on the issue of dual nationality has to be taken in accordance with the Constitution and the Supreme Court’s decision. A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, disqualified on Sept 20 several parliamentarians holding dual nationalities. The court pointed out that under Article 63(1c) of the Constitution a lawmaker could not hold dual nationalities...
Boy dies in Quetta blast By Our Correspondent QUETTA, Oct 8: A 12-year-old boy was killed and 13 people, four police personnel among them, were injured when a bomb exploded on Zarghoon Road in the city on Monday. The explosive device had been planted in a motorbike...
New law to help make country economic power: Zardari ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: Entrepreneurs and businessmen should utilise the country’s economic potential and strategic location to make it an economic power, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday. Speaking to office-bearers of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) and the World Presidents Organisation (WPO) at the President House, he said the Special Economic Zone Bill 2012 was a major initiative of the government to create a business- and investor-friendly environment...
Karzai’s conditions for partnership decried By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: The Foreign Office decried on Monday Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s conditions for strategic partnership with Islamabad and said Pakistan wanted to have a ‘mature dialogue’ with Afghanistan. The strongly worded FO rejoinder to terms set by Mr Karzai has clouded the possibility of the two countries, once described by the Afghan president as ‘conjoined twins’, striking an accord that could serve as a roadmap for bolstering ties...
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