DINA for the issue of October 16, 2012

	Tuesday 16th October 2012 | Ziqa'ad 28, 1433
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PPP holds big rally in support of LB law By Mohammad Hussain Khan HYDERABAD, Oct 15: The Pakistan People’s Party demonstrated its political prowess here on Monday with a big public meeting in a ground off the National Highway...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 42.32 Points: KARACHI, Oct 15: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 15736.53, up 42.32 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Oct 15: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95.7 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Malala can recover, say UK doctors BIRMINGHAM (UK), Oct 15: A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban has every chance of making a ‘good recovery’, British doctors said on Monday as 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai arrived at a hospital in central England for treatment of her severe wounds. Malala, who was shot for advocating education for girls, was flown from Pakistan to receive specialist treatment at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital at a unit expert in dealing with complex trauma cases that has treated hundreds of soldiers wounded in Afghanistan...
N. Waziristan operation put on hold again? By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: Soon after the unconscious teenage activist, Malala Yousufzai, flew out of the country for treatment in the United Kingdom, all the hype about long anticipated North Waziristan operation surreptitiously began to dissipate. Expediencies, both on civilian and military side, emerged as the roadblock to any major operation for clearing North Waziristan — home to a variety of terrorist groups where the army had all through the decade of war on terror avoided going on one pretext or the other...
Commission on Arsalan case seeks more time By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: The Dr Shoaib Suddle Commission appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate allegations of Rs342 million financial wrongdoings by Dr Arsalan Iftikhar complained on Monday of lack of cooperation by property tycoon Malik Riaz, the interior ministry and Islamabad police. In an interim report submitted to the court, the commission sought one month more to complete the investigation that could not be completed within the stipulated 30 days...
Dual nationality ghost blocks drug bill By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: While the question of dual nationality is being hotly debated in other forums, something like its ghost hit a government bill for creating a new drug regulatory authority and the ruling coalition did not have enough numbers in the National Assembly on Monday to exorcise the menace. Midway through voting on its clauses, the Drug Regulatory Authority Bill was deferred when the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) broke the house quorum by having several of its back-benchers sneak out of the chamber after a lawmaker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a coalition partner, refused to withdraw his amendment seeking deletion of a single word, “only”, from a clause that requires the chief executive officer or a director of the proposed authority to be a Pakistani citizen...
Failure to declare assets: EC suspends over 150 lawmakers By Iftikhar A Khan ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: The Election Commission suspended on Monday membership of 154 lawmakers, including some federal and provincial ministers, for their failure to meet the legal formality of submitting statements of assets and liabilities, despite having been given another 15 days for the purpose. The suspended legislators include eight senators, 31 members of the National Assembly, 82 of Punjab, 16 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 14 of Sindh and three of Balochistan...
Dual nationality bill: Govt to hold talks with opposition By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: The government has agreed to hold talks with the Leader of Opposition and heads of the parliamentary parties on the proposed 22nd constitutional amendment bill after a majority of members of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice advised it to adopt the path of dialogue and not to rush the controversial legislation through parliament in haste. A meeting of the committee, presided over by its chairman Mohammad Kazim Khan, was held here on Monday, but PPP stalwarts Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and Raza Rabbani, ANP’s Daud Khan Achakzai, PML-F’s Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah and JUI-F’s Maulana Mohammad Khan Shirani skipped it...
Russia assures India it won’t sell arms to Pakistan By Our Correspondent NEW DELHI, Oct 15: Russia has assured India it will not sell any arms to Pakistan, a clarification delivered through the media ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi in November, local reports said on Monday. “We are always cooperating with India to ensure safety of the region. We never created trouble for India in the region as compared to other countries. If someone says otherwise, spit in his face,” The Hindu quoted Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin as saying on Sunday...
Militants behead SP, kill five other security men By Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR, Oct 15: A police superintendent and five other security personnel were killed and 11 injured in an attack on a police post by a large number of militants in Mattani area, near Peshawar, on Sunday night. The militants beheaded Peshawar Rural Circle SP Khurshid Khan and escaped with his head, an official said...
Zardari’s plane escapes mishap By Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI, Oct 15: President Asif Ali Zardari’s plane had a lucky escape after it developed a ‘technical fault’ moments after take-off from the Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Monday night. The president was going to Baku, Azerbaijan, to attend the 12th summit of Economic Cooperation Organisation...
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