DINA for the issue of October 15, 2012

	Monday 15th October 2012 | Ziqa'ad 27, 1433
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PPP almost seals poll alliance with PML-Q By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Oct 14: The Pakistan People’s Party and its coalition partner Pakistan Muslim League-Q have finalised an arrangement for contesting the next elections jointly...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
PML-N to oppose 22nd amendment bill By Amjad Mahmood LAHORE, Oct 14: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has said it will oppose the 22nd constitution amendment bill set to be taken up by a Senate standing committee on Monday. “We will not support the bill until the government addresses our reservations over certain important points. The proposed legislation lacks clarity, but the government is bent upon adopting it in haste,” PML-N’s media coordinator and former senator Tariq Azeem told Dawn on Sunday...
Ventilator taken off briefly: Malala’s condition improving, says ISPR By Amir Wasim RAWALPINDI, Oct 14: Malala Yousufzai was taken off the ventilator for some time on Sunday and the short trial was successful, a military spokesman said while giving an update on the condition of the 14-year-old Swat girl who had been shot in the head in a terrorist attack in Mingora last week. The spokesman said the condition of Malala, who is under treatment at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) in Rawalpindi, was “stable” and she was making “steady and satisfactory progress”...
MQM holds meetings to express solidarity with Malala: Altaf pledges support to army if it acts to wipe out terrorists By Azfar-ul-Ashfaque KARACHI, Oct 14: Assuring his party’s full support to a military operation against the Taliban, Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain urged the Pakistan Army on Sunday to wipe out ‘Taliban terrorists’ working against the country and attacking the nation’s daughters. Referring to the attack on Malala Yousufzai, Mr Hussain called upon Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, corps commanders and the chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence to move ahead and eliminate the Taliban and other extremist groups...
Bombing of seminaries should also be condemned, says Fazl By Waseem Shamsi SUKKUR, Oct 14: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Sunday that the attack on Malala Yousufzai in Swat should be condemned, but those raising a hue and cry over it should also condemn the bombings of seminaries and mosques. “We have some reservations about the Malala incident because the army and the government want to use this issue for launching an operation in Waziristan,” he said while addressing a big public meeting here...
Two brothers killed in sectarian attack By Amanullah Kasi QUETTA, Oct 14: Two brothers were killed and three people injured in an apparent sectarian attack here on Sunday, sources said. Armed men on a motorbike opened fire at a vehicle on Sattar Road, killing Mohammad Ismail and his bother Ishaq. They belonged to the Shia community...
Obama’s popularity dips to new low By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Oct 14: US President Barack Obama’s popularity reached an all-time low this weekend while his Republican rival Mitt Romney maintained the lead he gained after the first presidential debate 10 days ago. On Sunday, Real Clear Politics, which monitors and analyse opinion polls, published an analysis of seven leading polls, giving Mr Romney an average popularity rating of 47.3 per cent, compared to Mr Obama’s 45.9 per cent...
Prices of petrol, CNG reduced by 2pc By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Oct 14: The government on Sunday reduced prices of petrol and compressed natural gas (CNG) by about two per cent and increased prices of all other petroleum products by up to 2.24 per cent for a week, passing on the impact of prices in international markets to consumers. A reduction of 1.99 per cent was made in the prices of petrol and CNG. As a result, the price of petrol (motor spirit) declined by Rs2.09 per litre to Rs103.40 per litre from Rs105.49...
Occupy activists in church protest LONDON, Oct 14: Four demonstrators from the anti-capitalist Occupy movement on Sunday chained themselves to the pulpit in London’s St Paul’s cathedral, a year on from the group’s protest camp outside the famous church. David Ison, the Dean of St Paul’s, said “four young women dressed in white” made their move during his evening prayer...
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