DINA for the issue of October 12, 2012

	Friday 12th October 2012 | Ziqa'ad 24, 1433
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Military ‘ready for any sacrifice to eliminate terror’ By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Top military body’s declaration on Thursday that it was ready for any sacrifice for eliminating terrorism sparked speculations about the possibility of a major military offensive against Tehrik-i-Taliban and other terror networks operating from tribal areas...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 87.00 Points: KARACHI, Oct 11: St the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 15840.82, up 87.00 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Oct 11: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95.6 to the US Dollar in the open market.
SC orders production of jirga members, Wani girls By Amanullah Kasi QUETTA, Oct 11: Taking notice of a jirga in Dera Bugti in which 13 girls were reported to have been made Wani (given away in marriage to settle a dispute), the Supreme Court ordered on Thursday that the matter be thoroughly investigated and the tribal elders involved be produced before court, along with the girls. The Dera Bugti deputy commissioner informed a three-member bench that no-one was coming forward to give evidence in the case...
18 militants killed in Orakzai drone attack By Syed Hassan Mehmood KALAYA, Oct 11: Eighteen militants were killed as US drones attacked a compound in upper Orakzai on Thursday morning. Another eight people were killed and 22 injured when two bomb blasts hit a bus stand near a bazaar in the same agency. A senior administration official said the US drone fired four missiles on the compound owned by Maulana Shakirullah, the commander of Taliban’s Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, in the Bulandkhel area...
14 killed in Sibi, Dera Bugti blasts By Our Correspondent QUETTA, Oct 11: At least 14 people were killed and 28 others injured in two blasts, one in Sibi and the other in Dera Bugti, on Thursday. According to police, 11 people were killed and 26 injured when a powerful bomb strapped to a motorbike exploded near a restaurant on Nishtar Road in Sibi...
All eyes on Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology: Malala airlifted to Rawalpindi; still unconscious By Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI, Oct 11: Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old activist who had been shot and critically injured in an attack claimed by the Taliban, was airlifted to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) in Rawalpindi on Thursday. Malala’s father and a five-member medical team which treated her in a military hospital in Peshawar also accompanied her in the army helicopter. Her other relatives are coming to Rawalpindi by road...
The Fata-ification of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa By Cyril Almeida PESHAWAR: Wracked by violence in the late 2000s, it appears as if a state of relative stability has been restored to the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. But scratch the surface and the sense of normality quickly disappears in Peshawar and surrounding areas. The outskirts of the city and surrounding areas are still in the grip of violence and militant activity. While the intensity is lower than in years past, denizens of the capital remain uneasy and suggest militant activity is once again bubbling up around them...
Ex-minister Sher Afgan passes away By Khursheed Anwar Khan MIANWALI, Oct 11: Former federal minister for parliamentary affairs Dr Sher Afgan Khan Niazi passed away here on Thursday afternoon. He was 67. Dr Niazi, who was suffering from liver cancer, went into coma when his health deteriorated two days ago...
Jurists back PAC’s right to summon SC registrar By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: A panel of jurists has endorsed the contention of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly that the Constitution allows it to summon the Supreme Court registrar for regularisation of annual expenditures incurred on superior courts. The PAC had invited Senator and veteran lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan, former Senator and senior lawyer S.M. Zafar, former chairman of Senate and prominent lawyer Wasim Sajjad, Supreme Court Bar Association’s President Yasin Azad, Justice (retd) Tariq Mehmood and Justice (retd) Shabbar Raza Rizvi to its meeting...
Clerics say attack on Malala un-Islamic By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, Oct 11: At least 50 religious scholars associated with the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) issued here on Thursday a joint fatwa (religious edict) declaring the attack on Malala Yousafzai as un-Islamic and appealed to people to observe Friday as a ‘day of condemnation’. It also demanded that the government should review its “pro-US” policies to eliminate real causes of terrorism in the country because the “US is anti-Islam and an invader”...
UN education envoy to visit Pakistan LONDON, Oct 11: UN special education envoy Gordon Brown would visit Pakistan next month for talks with President Asif Ali Zardari after the shooting of a child activist by the Taliban, Mr Brown’s office said on Thursday. Mr Brown, who was prime minister of Britain from 2007-2010, will lead a delegation that will discuss with the Pakistani government how to improve education opportunities for children...
National Assembly set to lag on accountability law By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: With only a day left of its current session, the National Assembly appeared on Thursday to be facing a lag on a new accountability law for holders of public office despite earlier government plans for a quick work. As it became clear the National Accountability Commission Bill introduced three days ago would not come before the present session ending on Friday because the house standing committee on law and justice failed to complete the scrutiny of the 48-clause draft before adjourning until Oct 18, opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan threatened from outside the chamber that the PML-N would “strongly react” to any bulldozing...
Probe into sale of embassy buildings By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, Oct 11: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) informed the Lahore High Court on Thursday that it had formally sought legal assistance from governments of Japan and Indonesia about alleged corruption by officers of the ministry of foreign affairs in the sale of embassy buildings in Tokyo and Jakarta. The bureau submitted a report of its initial inquiry into allegations of embezzlement in illegal sale of properties of Pakistan embassies in the two countries...
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