DINA for the Issue of October 14, 2012

	Sunday, October 14, 2012 | Ziqa’ad 26, 1433
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Blast leaves 16 dead in Darra Adamkhel By Abdul Sami Paracha KOHAT, Oct 13: At least 16 people were killed and 35 others injured when a car bomb ripped through a market in Darra Adamkhel on Saturday. Twenty-eight of the injured were admitted to Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Jirga orders handover of two girls as Wani By Waseem Shamsi SUKKUR, Oct 13: A large number of people held a demonstration outside the press club on Saturday in protest against the decision by a jirga on marriage of two minor girls under the wani custom. A local wadera (chieftain), Peeral Chachar, presided over the jirga and gave away the girls as wani to settle a matrimonial dispute....
Zardari’s choice for China post irks FO By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: The Foreign Office’s top brass is bristling at President Asif Ali Zardari’s pick for ambassador in Beijing — one of the most important diplomatic assignments. The presidency is said to be backing the Chief of Protocol at the Foreign Office, Ghalib Iqbal, for the Beijing job, which is expected to be filled soon...
NWA operation needs political decision: ISPR By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: The army put the ball in the political leadership’s court on Saturday on the question of whether or not to launch an operation in North Waziristan Agency (NWA). “It is going to be a political decision,” ISPR chief Lt Gen Asim Bajwa told Dawn....
Malala’s condition improving ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: Malala Yousufzai is showing signs of improvement and doctors have decided to reduce the quantity of sedatives in order to assess the extent of her recovery, the ISPR chief said on Saturday. The 14-year-old is currently being treated at the army-run Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi. “Unconscious Malala moved one of her arms and a leg today,” Lt Gen Asim Bajwa said...
Senate panel to take up nationality bill tomorrow By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: The Senate’s committee on law and justice will take up a constitutional amendment bill on Monday that allows holders of dual nationality to become members of parliament amidst criticism on the move even from within the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), sources told Dawn. ‘The 22nd Constitution Amendment Bill 2012’, moved by Law Minister Farooq Naek in the Senate on July 10, seeks amendment to sub-clause (C) of Article 63(1) of the Constitution dealing with disqualification of a member of parliament. The committee is headed by PPP’s Kazim Khan...
120 suspects arrested NOWSHERA/MINGORA, Oct 13: Nowshera police arrested three brothers on charges of involvement in the Malala Yousufzai attack case during an operation in the Akbarpura area in the small hours of Saturday. According to officials, police raided a house in Tarkha village of Akbarpura and arrested Qari Inamullah, Obaidullah and Abdul Hadi hailing from Mingora, Swat valley...
Allotment of election symbols: 120 parties yet to fulfil requirements By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: About 120 political parties out of the 193 registered with the Election Commission are yet to qualify to get election symbols for the upcoming general election. Sources told Dawn on Saturday that only 71 political parties had so far submitted details of their intra-party elections to the commission — a prerequisite for eligibility to obtain election symbol under the Political Parties Order 2002. In some of the cases the details were awaited for the last two to three years...
Afghan students pray for Malala’s recovery KABUL, Oct 13: Schools in Afghanistan opened on Saturday with special prayers for the quick recovery of a Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head, in a move officials said was meant to show solidarity with her. The Pakistani Taliban shot Malala Yousufzai, a teenage children’s rights activist, in the head on her school bus on Tuesday, to avenge her campaigns for the right to education in the militants’ former stronghold of Swat...
Drone and sectarian attacks also condemned: Wafaqul Madaris deplores attack on Malala By Bakhtawar Mian ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: The Wafaqul Madaris Arabia Pakistan (WMAP) has condemned the terrorist attack on Malala Yousufzai, but advised individuals and institutions not to try to “cash in on her tragedy for their ulterior motives”. It also condemned the Oct 11 drone attack on a religious seminary in Orakzai Agency which, according to the WMAP, killed 18 innocent people, including students of the seminary...
People turning against Taliban: US By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Oct 13: Incidents like the Taliban attack on Malala Yousufzai do galvanise popular opinion against the militants, says the US State Department. “We’ve seen in the past in Pakistan that when the Taliban commit truly heinous and outrageous acts like this, it galvanises popular opinion against them,” the department’s spokesperson told a briefing in Washington...
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