DINA for the issue of October 17, 2012

	Wednesday 17th October 2012 | Ziqa'ad 29, 1433
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Vaccinator killed in Quetta attack By Our Correspondent QUETTA, Oct 16: A vaccinator died when a team of polio vaccinators came under attack near here on Tuesday...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 73.91 Points: KARACHI, Oct 16: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 15672.99, up 73.91 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Oct 16: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95.6 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Drug authority bill adopted in NA By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Oct 16: Amid confusing signals over the possibility of a military operation against Taliban bases in North Waziristan in the wake of the shooting of Swat’s schoolgirl activist Malala Yosufzai, the Pakistan Muslim League-N aborted on Tuesday a new government-backed resolution in the National Assembly calling for action against militants. But before fiery and passionate exchanges on the move, the house saw a period of comparative cordiality when the PML-N conceded to the deletion of a single word from a government bill seeking the establishment of a new drug regulatory authority, leading to its unanimous adoption, after government support enabled a similar passage of a PML-N member’s private bill seeking to abolish discretionary quotas in public sector housing schemes in Islamabad...
Pakistan, Iran vow to jointly pursue major projects BAKU (Azerbaijan), Oct 16: President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday called for speeding up work on joint projects like the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, electricity transmission lines and rail and road schemes. During a meeting between President Zardari and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of the 12th ECO summit, the two sides discussed bilateral, regional and international issues...
Malala will need reconstructive surgery: hospital director BIRMINGHAM, Oct 16: Malala Yousufzai is making progress in a British hospital, doctors said on Tuesday, as police turned away visitors claiming to be relatives. The 14-year-old girl, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Mingora last week, was in a stable condition on her first full day in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after being flown to the city in central England in an air ambulance...
FWO stops work on Gomal Zam Dam over dues By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Oct 16: The Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), a subsidiary of the armed forces, has issued a notice to Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) informing it that it is terminating construction of Rs13 billion Gomal Zam Dam project immediately for its failure to clear over Rs4 billion outstanding dues. Sources in the FWO told Dawn that the organisation had been using its own resources to ensure uninterrupted progress on the strategic project in the militancy-hit Waziristan region...
11 die as bus overturns By Our Correspondent NAWABSHAH, Oct 16: At least 11 people, a woman and her daughter, were killed and 28 others injured when a bus overturned on the National Highway near Shahpur Jehanian on Tuesday morning. The bus was going to Karachi from Dera Ghazi Khan. The accident took place when the driver lost control of the vehicle as he tried to save a donkey cart...
Four Hazara men shot dead By Our Correspondent QUETTA, Oct 16: Four men of the Hazara community were shot dead in an attack on a scrap shop here on Tuesday morning. According to police, men on motorcycles opened fire on the shop in Kabarhi Market on Sirki Road and fled after killing Ata Ali, Muhammad Ibrahim, Ghulam Ali and Syed Awiz. The bodies were handed over to the families after autopsy in Civil Hospital...
SC rejects Gen Beg’s plea for Naseerullah Babar’s statement By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Oct 16: The Supreme Court, which is hearing a case over allegations that the ISI had doled out funds to politicians in the 1990s, turned down on Tuesday a request by former army chief Gen (retd) Aslam Beg to provide copies of cross-examination of former interior minister Lt-Gen (retd) Naseerullah Babar recorded in camera. ISLAMABAD, Oct 16: The Supreme Court, which is hearing a case over allegations that the ISI had doled out funds to politicians in the 1990s, turned down on Tuesday a request by former army chief Gen (retd) Aslam Beg to provide copies of cross-examination of former interior minister Lt-Gen (retd) Naseerullah Babar recorded in camera. “It is not possible to make these documents public because there are certain things in the documents which cannot be made public,” observed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. After due diligence the order to keep the document secret was made, he said...
Allegations about fissile production ban rejected By Masood Haider UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16: Pakistan has rejected allegations levelled by some western countries that it was responsible for blocking an agreement on a treaty to ban the production of fissile material used as fuel for nuclear weapons. Pakistan’s delegate told the UN General Assembly on Monday that a lack of consensus in the Conference on Disarmament on negotiating an agreement could not be attributed to the position of one state, Pakistan, as claimed by some western delegates...
Bihar CM to visit Pakistan NEW DELHI, Oct 16: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will lead a delegation of ministers, legislators and officials from his state to Pakistan next month, The Indian Express has reported. It said the weeklong visit was supported by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government, which hopes it will give traction to the dialogue process between the two countries. Mr Kumar is scheduled to visit from November 9 to 16 on the invitation of some Pakistani parliamentarians and universities...
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