DINA for the Issue of October 26, 2012

	Friday, October 26, 2012 | Zilhaj 9, 1433
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Haj sermon lays stress on peace, brotherhood   ISLAMABAD, Oct 25: Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh has called upon the Muslim community to follow the teachings of Islam about promoting peace and brotherhood...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
SC intervention yields result: CNG price slashed by Rs30 per kg By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Oct 25: Consumers of CNG got a pleasant surprise on the eve of Eid: a reduction in the price of the transport fuel by as much as Rs30 per kg, thanks to judicial activism. The relief came when Petroleum and Natural Resources Secretary Waqar Masood informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that the arrangement of linking the price of CNG with that of petrol on a weekly basis would be abandoned.....
Father and brothers of Malala go to Birmingham By Mohammed Asghar RAWALPINDI, Oct 25: Malala Yousufzai’s parents, brother and a relative flew to Birmingham from the Benazir Bhutto International Airport on board a PIA flight on Thursday amid reports that the 14-year-old education activist had been responding well to treatment in a British hospital, sources said. Malala, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Mingora, was flown to Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Oct 15....
PML-N’s U-turn on ISI payments issue: Nawaz says his party accepts FIA probe By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Oct 25: The PML-N headed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif sprang a surprise on Thursday by disowning a statement made by his party’s stalwart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and agreeing to an investigation by the FIA into the dirty money the ISI used in 1990 elections. The probe had been ordered by the Supreme Court in its short order in the Asghar Khan case. In an apparent damage control exercise following widespread criticism of Chaudhry Nisar’s statement that the PML-N had “reservations” over the SC decision to hand over investigations to the Federal Investigation Agency, Mr Nawaz Sharif told a TV talk show anchor on telephone that this was not the view of his party....
Price reduced for four days By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Oct 25: Following an interim order issued by the Supreme Court on Thursday, the government reduced the price of CNG by up to Rs30.89 per kg with immediate effect as an interim relief for four days. The relief for consumers on the eve of Eidul Azha will, however, cost the CNG station owners Rs22 per kg following the suspension of their operating cost and the government Rs9 per kg in the form of reduction in development surcharge and general sales tax....
SHC stops govt from suspending cellphone service By Tahir Siddiqui KARACHI, Oct 25: The Sindh High Court restrained the federal government on Thursday from suspending cellphone service “unless it is absolutely inevitable”. Disposing of a petition against a reported decision to block cellphone service during Eidul Azha days, a division bench headed by Justice Maqbool Baqar directed the interior ministry to issue a “speaking order with cogent reasons and for specific areas and specific duration only” before effecting the closure of the service....
Durand Line a ‘settled issue’, says Pakistan By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Oct 25: Pakistan jumped on Thursday into a war of words between Afghanistan and the United States over the legitimacy of Durand Line as an international border saying it was a “settled issue”. “As far as the official response of the government of Pakistan is concerned, the Durand Line is a closed and settled issue. We regard it as the recognised international border, and the international community also recognises it so,” Foreign Office Spokesman Moazzam Khan said at the weekly media briefing....
Five die in firing on Karachi restaurant By S. Raza Hassan KARACHI, Oct 25: Five people were gunned down in the city on Thursday night. The killings appeared to be linked to the ongoing sectarian violence, a senior police officer said. He said gunmen on motorcycles opened fire at people sitting in ‘Gulzar-i-Habib’ restaurant in Block 22 of the F.B. Area, causing severe injuries to five of them....
US-funded individuals, firms back insurgency By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Oct 25: A congressional oversight body has sent a letter to the US State Department, saying that some American-funded companies and individuals are actively supporting the insurgency in Afghanistan. In the letter, which was also copied to the US Agency for International Development, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction urged the US government to immediately stop disbursement of federal funds to these companies and individuals....
Four British, US soldiers killed in Afghanistan KABUL, Oct 25: British troops killed two of their own soldiers in a ‘friendly fire’ incident in Afghanistan while two American soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan ally, Afghan and international military sources said on Thursday. Britain’s defence ministry did not confirm the deaths of the two British soldiers in Helmand province, one of them a female medic, were a result of ‘friendly fire’, saying the incident was still under investigation....
Bangladesh rebuilds Buddhist temples DHAKA, Oct 25: Bangladesh has started rebuilding 19 Buddhist temples vandalised by Muslim mobs in violence triggered by anger over Facebook content that defamed the holy Quran, officials said on Thursday. Army engineers will renovate the temples at a cost of nearly 120 million taka ($1.5 million) on the orders of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who recently visited the area, local official Ruhul Amin said....
Additional tax on incoming international calls suspended By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, Oct 25: The Lahore High Court suspended on Thursday an additional tax imposed by the federal government on incoming international telephone calls and asked the ministry of information technology and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to file detailed replies on the matter. Justice Ijazul Ahsan issued the interim order on a writ petition filed by a private company, Brain Telecommunication, challenging the levy of the tax....
Two Yemeni officers gunned down SANAA, Oct 25: Two gunmen armed with Kalashnikov rifles and riding motorcycles shot dead an anti-terror officer and a local police chief in central Yemen on Thursday, a security source said. The gunmen riddled with bullets the car in which Colonel Ali Al Yamani, an intelligence officer in charge of combating terrorism, was travelling the Dhamar district south of Sanaa along with a local deputy police commissioner....
60 per cent French say Islam too prominent PARIS, Oct 25: Sixty per cent of the French think Islam is too prominent in their country and nearly half view the religion as a threat to national identity, according to a survey published on Thursday. Thirty-five per cent said they were indifferent and only five per cent thought the presence of Islam was not overwhelming, an Ifop survey for Le Figaro newspaper said.....
Two gunned down in Balochistan By Amanullah Kasi QUETTA, Oct 25: Gunmen shot dead two people, one in Khuzdar and the other in Turbat, on Thursday as incidents of target killing continued across the province, belying the provincial government’s claims about improvements in law and order under situation. Two armed men on a motorbike opened fire on a car on Eidgah road in Khuzdar, killing Siraj Ahmed and injuring his brother Manzoor Ahmed. Both are sons of Nadeem Garganari, president of the Khuzdar Press Club....
40 whales die in mass stranding NEW DELHI, Oct 25: About 40 whales died in a mass stranding on the west coast of India’s remote North Andaman island in the Bay of Bengal, wildlife officials said on Thursday. “The short-finned pilot whales were found by fishermen who alerted us and investigations show it was a case of mass stranding,” said Ajai Saxena, a wildlife official in Port Blair, capital of the islands....
Drone inquiry to hurt ties with US, Pakistan: UK LONDON, Oct 25: Ties between Britain, the US and Pakistan could be jeopardised if a judge grants a request for a court inquiry into the possible role of UK spy agencies in aiding covert CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal region, a government lawyer told Britain’s High Court on Thursday. James Eadie, lawyer for Britain’s Foreign Office, insisted that intelligence sharing between Britain and the US – already under strain by previous disclosures made in London courtrooms – and links between Washington and Pakistan would all potentially be cast into doubt....
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