DINA for the issue of October 19, 2012

	Friday 19th October 2012 | Zilhaj 2, 143
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Raja calls for respect of all institutions ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has said all institutions, including parliament, the Supreme Court and armed forces, belonged to Pakistan and the country could prosper only when all these respected each other and worked within their ambits.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 23.48 Points: KARACHI, Oct 18: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 15678.10, up 23.48 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Oct 18: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95.6 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Asghar Khan petition hearing: Beg: I did not take oath on ’73 Constitution By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: The Supreme Court was surprised on Thursday when a former army chief disclosed that like many other senior officers he never took oath under the 1973 Constitution because he had joined the military service prior to its adoption. Advocate Akram Sheikh, the counsel for former army chief Gen (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg, stirred a fresh controversy when he said his client had joined the Pakistan Army in 1952 and as such he took oath prescribed in the Indian Army Act of 1911 which was later modified...
Pakistan behind Nepal, India in girls’ education By Amin Ahmed ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: Released in the wake of an armed attack on teenage education activist Malala Yousufzai, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report shows that Pakistan’s progress in getting poor girls into schools is less than half that of India’s and Nepal’s and a quarter of Bangladesh’s. The report released by Unesco here on Thursday reveals that though Pakistan has the second largest number of out-of-school girls in the world, yet it has reduced the amount it spends on education to less than 2.3 per cent of GNP. Only nine low- and lower-middle-income countries spend a smaller share on education. The barriers to education faced by Pakistani girls are stark in comparison with the rest of South Asia...
Five parties revive MMA, leave out Jamaat-i-Islami, JUI-Sami By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), which exists in parliament only in name, will be revived under the same banner but without two key partners — Jamaat-i-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Sami). The decision was taken at a meeting of representatives of five religious parties, including a breakaway faction of the JUI (Sami), here on Thursday, according to JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman...
NAB takes up payment of over Rs800m to Raisanis By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: A payment of over Rs800 million as compensation to the Raisani family by the Balochistan government has prompted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to examine the legal status of the transaction. A senior official at the NAB head office said the bureau was aware of the release of the money to Nawabzada Haji Lashkari Raisani, younger brother of Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani, in August last year. The then provincial chief secretary had opposed the decision...
Pakistan and Serbia to sign MoU on defence By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: Pursuing the policy of diversifying its weapons purchases, Pakistan this week started negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding with Serbia on defence cooperation. The MoU is likely to be signed next month during a high-level visit to Pakistan by either Serbian president or the prime minister...
Shahbaz’s son-in-law sent to jail on judicial remand LAHORE, Oct 18: A judicial magistrate sent on Thursday Ali Imran Yousaf, son-in-law of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, to jail on a 14-day judicial remand. Mr Yousaf had courted arrest a day earlier and the Defence-B police registered a case against him under Section 109 of the PPC (charges of abetment)...
Abidi tries to justify his outburst against judiciary By Iftikhar A Khan ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: Outspoken PPP legislator Faisal Raza Abidi tried on Thursday to justify his outburst on several TV channels against superior judiciary. Speaking on a point of order in the Senate, he said that according to a notification of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) dated Nov 25, 2005, any member of the public could bring to the notice of the council any allegation of misconduct against a judge...
Suspect was ‘held’ and freed in 2009 ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: The alleged organiser of the Taliban shooting of Malala Yousufzai was captured during a 2009 military offensive against the extremist group but released after three months, two senior officials said. They identified the man who planned the attack on the 14-year-old girl only as Attaullah, and said he was one of the two gunmen who shot her on a school bus this month in Swat valley...
List of more ‘dual nationals’ lands in SC By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, one of the members of a three-judge Supreme Court bench hearing a case about lawmakers having dual nationality, named on Thursday Adviser to Prime Minister on Petroleum and Natural Resourced Dr Asim Hussain, Minister for Ports and Shipping Babar Ghauri and Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad as some of the high-profile people believed to have foreign nationalities. During the hearing, Justice Khawaja picked up a list, saying sometimes courts also received information. He then read out the names of at least nine leaders, a majority of them from Sindh, allegedly having dual citizenship. The list included MNA Waseem Ahmed, Sindh Finance Minister Murad Ali Shah, Minister for Food and Agriculture Nadir Maqsi and MPAs Dr Muhammad Ali Shah and Sassui Palijo...
Attack shows Pak strategy hurting its people: Karzai KABUL, Oct 18: The attack on Malala Yousufzai, who campaigned for the right of girls to education, showed that Islamabad’s strategy on terrorism was hurting Pakistanis too, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday. He expressed the hope that the attack would convince Islamabad that “using extremism as a tool against others was not in its own interest”...
Letter to Altaf calls for joint efforts against terror By Our staff Reporter KARACHI, Oct 18: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for coordinated efforts by Pakistan and Afghanistan against the “evils of extremism and terrorism that are threatening the well-being of the two countries”. In a handout issued by its London secretariat, Muttahida Qaumi Movement said on Thursday that President Karzai had sent a letter to MQM chief Altaf Hussain that condemned the “heinous” attempt on the life of Malala Yousufzai and her school fellows...
CIA officer killed in Afghanistan By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Oct 18: A suicide attack has killed a CIA officer and an American soldier in southwestern Afghanistan, CNN reported on Thursday. The attack on a joint US-Afghan military base on Saturday also killed four Afghan National Security troops...
Bangladeshi held in US sting operation By Masood Haider NEW YORK, Oct 18: The US law-enforcement agencies claimed on Wednesday to have arrested a Bangladeshi man who wanted to blow up a building in the financial district of the city. The authorities told media personnel that Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a 21-year-old Bangladeshi citizen, parked a van filled with what he believed to be 1,000 pounds of explosives outside the Federal Reserve Bank building in Lower Manhattan, near the New York Stock Exchange...
‘Condition remains stable’: Vigil in Birmingham for Malala BIRMINGHAM, Oct 18: British campaigners held a vigil for Malala Yousufzai on Thursday, as doctors said the 14-year-old girl was in a stable condition. “Malala Yousufzai’s condition remains stable. She spent a third comfortable night in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and doctors are pleased with her progress so far,” the hospital said in a statement...
Khalid Sheikh in anti-US diatribe at Guantanamo GUANTANAMO BAY (Cuba), Oct 18: Wearing a military-style vest, self-declared 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed delivered a scathing anti-American diatribe at a military tribunal on Wednesday in what the judge called a “one-time occurrence”. The US president “can legislate assassinations under the name of national security for American citizens”, the Kuwaiti-born Pakistani said during the third day of a pre-trial hearing at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
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