DINA for the issue of October 11, 2012

	Thursday 11th October 2012 | Ziqa'ad 23, 1433
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Malala surgery successful By Ashfaq Yusufzai and Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR, Oct 10: Doctors successfully operated upon Malala Yousufzai on Wednesday and extracted a bullet from her shoulder. However, they said she was still in a critical condition...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 65.58 Points: KARACHI, Oct 10: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 15753.82, up 65.58 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Oct 10: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95.7 to the US Dollar in the open market.
NA committee approves 10 clauses of draft law By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: As the government prepares to rush a controversial accountability law through parliament, a reconstituted Standing Committee on Law and Justice of the National Assembly went into an emergency session and hurriedly adopted 10 clauses of the draft legislation, rejecting all opposition objections. The presence of chief whip of the ruling PPP, Syed Khurshid Shah, was conspicuous in the meeting of the NA body he is not a member of...
NRO case: SC approves draft presented by Naek, review petition withdrawn By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: After more than 30 months the painful NRO saga has ended for President Asif Ali Zardari. The Supreme Court approved on Wednesday the draft of a letter it had ordered the government to write to the Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against the president. But the government won the court’s sanction only after firing a warning shot by moving a petition only a day earlier seeking review of the court’s formula of monitoring the legal procedure till final disposition of the matter...
An unscripted event reveals divisions within ANP By Cyril Almeida PESHAWAR: The Friday after Ghulam Ahmad Bilour made the extraordinary offer of a $100,000 bounty for the murder of the producer of the Innocence of Muslims, the federal railways minister was invited to the historic Mohabbat Khan mosque in the heart of the provincial capital. There, after the Friday prayers concluded, Bilour once again pledged to reward the killers of the film producer, and even of future blasphemers. For his efforts Bilour was showered with rose petals and garlanded by the cheering congregation. The second time round, however, Bilour did not extend his offer to the Taliban or Al Qaeda — whom he had earlier referred to as to as ‘brothers’. While Bilour’s statement, particularly his call to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, has dismayed many within the ANP, the party has yet to initiate formal proceedings against its errant senior leader, triggering speculation that electoral considerations and divisions within the party are behind the party’s silence...
Zardari-led PPP not involved in political activities, govt tells LHC By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh LAHORE, Oct 10: The federal government informed the Lahore High Court on Wednesday that President Asif Ali Zardari did not hold any political office and no prohibitory order had been issued by the court in the past against the president’s dual office. Advocate Wasim Sajjad, representing the federation in a contempt of court petition against the president, argued before a five-judge larger bench that Mr Zardari was co-chairperson of a party (PPP) which was neither registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan nor allotted an election symbol...
Rage and resolve in parliament over Malala shooting By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: It was both rage and resolve in both houses of parliament on Wednesday over the shooting of an award-winning Swat valley girl activist with the National Assembly calling for continuing the “rooting out of terrorists”. But amid this outpouring across party lines, which overshadowed an apparent sense of relief over the Supreme Court’s endorsement of the text of a letter it wants the government to send to Switzerland over disputed money-laundering charges against President Asif Ali Zardari, there were also some voices of alleged hypocrisy that sought to shift the blame for Tuesday’s attack on the 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai claimed by Taliban militants...
Five killed in US drone strike By Our Correspondent MIRAMSHAH, Oct 10: Five people were killed when a US drone fired missiles on a house in Mirali on Wednesday, only three days after PTI chief Imran Khan had led a peace march to the region against such attacks. Local people said the unmanned US aircraft fired four missiles on the house in the village of Harmoz, about 35km from Miramshah, before dawn...
Barack Obama disgusted by Malala attack WASHINGTON, Oct 10: US President Barack Obama sees the shooting of a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who protested against the Taliban as tragic and barbaric and has offered air ambulance services, his spokesman said on Wednesday. “I know that the president found the news reprehensible and disgusting and tragic,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said, adding that US forces were ready to offer transport and treatment to Malala Yousafzai...
Kayani vows to carry on fight against terror By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: Amy Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani vowed on Wednesday to carry on the fight against terrorism undeterred by militants’ brutal attack on children. “We refuse to bow before terror. We will fight, regardless of the cost. We will prevail, Insha Allah,” an ISPR statement quoted Gen Kayani as saying after a visit to the Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar for inquiring after the health of Malala Yousafzai and other schoolgirls who were critically wounded in Tuesday’s terrorist attack...
PIA plans to resume Swat flights By Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: The Pakistan International Airlines resumed its flights to Swat on Wednesday after suspension of over five years. The PIA’s ATR propeller aircraft touched down at the Saidu Sharif runway early in the morning...
Edhi among hopefuls for Peace Nobel STOCKHOLM, Oct 10: Russian dissidents and religious leaders working for Muslim-Christian reconciliation are among the favourites to win the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize when the result is announced on Friday. “I’m pretty sure the committee would like to honour the monumental events in the Middle East,” said Jan Egeland, the Director of Human Rights Watch Europe...
New Isaf commander By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Oct 10: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated a new commander, Marine Gen Joseph Dunford, for Afghanistan to oversee his plans for withdrawing all American and Nato combat troops from that country by 2014. The present commander of the International Security Assistances Forces, Gen Allen will replace Admiral Jim Stavridis in the spring...
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