DINA for the issue of October 31, 2012

	Wednesday 31st October 2012 | Zilhaj 14, 1433
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CNG price effective till SC decision: Ogra By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Hinting at the revival of operation cost as legitimate expense on CNG suspended by the government last week, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) announced on Tuesday that the reduced prices for the fuel would remain effective till adjudication of the case by the Supreme Court...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 24.82 Points: KARACHI, Oct 30: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 15787.90, down 24.82 points Forex Update : KARACHI, Oct 30: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 95.7 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Presidency to shun political activity, at least officially By Mubashir Zaidi ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Following orders from the Supreme Court in the Asghar Khan case and Lahore High Court in the case of dual offices of President Asif Ali Zardari, the presidency is trying to limit the political activities for now, at least for the media. A key presidential aide told Dawn that the regular core committee meetings of the PPP would not be held in the presidency and they had paved the way for informal discussions on lunch and dinner tables...
RPP case: Turkish firm pays Rs1.6bn, allowed to leave By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The National Accountability Bureau has allowed a Turkish ship-mounted power plant, Karkay, to leave the country after recovering Rs1.65 billion during investigation into the Rs22 billion rental power projects (RPPs) scam. “Under a recent agreement between NAB and Karkay, we have received two pay orders amounting to Rs1.65 billion,” the bureau’s spokesman Zafar Iqbal told Dawn on Tuesday...
24 die in Bahawalpur wagon-truck collision By Majeed Gill BAHAWALPUR, Oct 30: Twenty four people, among them seven women and four children, died and 10 others were injured in a head-on collision between a wagon and a truck near a bypass here on Tuesday. Seven of those killed belonged to the same family...
Commission to finalise poll arrangements by Dec 31 By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The Election Commission plans to finalise by Dec 31 the arrangements for next general election and has directed the relevant institutions to complete the remaining work in this regard. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, ECP’s Additional Secretary Mohammad Afzal Khan said the commission had not been given any indication by the government about holding the elections in January or any other month...
Khar paints rosy picture of human rights in Pakistan By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: While unveiling the country’s national report at the UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) on Tuesday, the government glossed over bitter facts and painted an overly rosy picture of what cannot be considered an enviable record. Keen to defend the country’s record because of candidacy for the Nov 12 election to HRC and hopes of qualifying for next GSP+ preferential trade programme, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar herself led the delegation to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva...
Pak cricket team to tour India NEW DELHI, Oct 30: The Indian government has cleared Pakistan’s cricket team to make a short tour in December for three One-day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches. The Press Trust of India said on Tuesday the decision was taken after a delegation from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) met Union Home secretary R.K. Singh on Tuesday and discussed security and logistical issues...
• Parts of Manhattan plunge into darkness • Transport system paralysed • 80 homes gutte: NY, New Jersey smothered by storm; 38 dead By Anwar Iqbal and Masood Haider WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Oct 30: The silence after the storm was eerie, as if the monster that has been pounding the US East Coast for two days, was giving more than 50 million terrorised residents a respite to count their losses: 38 deaths, 80 homes burned, 7.5 million homes and shops without electricity and more than $20 billion wasted. The death toll, just two on Monday evening, crawled up as reports of damage from this vast region — Carolinas to Maine — piled up. Most of the deaths happened when people ignored official warning, ventured out and got trapped under falling trees. Two missing members of a 16-men ship were also among the dead. Other 14 were rescued...
CJ favours voting right for Pakistanis abroad By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has suggested that the Pakistanis living abroad should be given the right to vote. “Prima facie we are of the opinion that they (overseas Pakistanis) should be given the right of franchise,” he observed while heading a two-judge bench that had taken up a petition of Tehrik-i-Insaaf chief Imran Khan for granting voting right to the Pakistanis living abroad...
NTDC gets new chief By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The ministry of water and power has taken back two of the three key positions it had awarded to Naveed Ismail, a former managing director of Karachi Electric Supply Company, and given them to two joint secretaries, it emerged on Tuesday. For several months, Mr Ismail held three key posts — head of Generation Holding Company, a state-run entity looking after the operations of three Gencos of Wapda, managing director of the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) and managing director of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco)...
Two Nato troops killed in insider attack KABUL, Oct 30: Two soldiers in the Nato-led coalition fighting militants in Afghanistan were shot dead on Tuesday by a man in an Afghan police uniform, the alliance’s International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said. It is the latest in a series of insider attacks that have seriously undermined trust between Nato forces and their Afghan allies in the fight against Taliban militants. “An individual wearing Afghan National Police uniform turned his weapon against Isaf forces in southern Afghanistan, killing two soldiers,” a spokesman said...
President for innovative strategies to eradicate polio By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Oct 30: President Asif Ali Zardari called on Tuesday for following innovative strategies to reach out to areas which were still serving as reservoir of polio virus and had remained under-served because of various reasons. Presiding over a meeting held at the Bilawal House to review progress in polio eradication efforts in Sindh, he reiterated the government’s commitment to utilising all possible resources for complete eradication of the crippling disease...
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