DINA for the issue of November 05, 2012

	Monday 5th November 2012 | Zilhaj 19, 1433
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Parliament still under attack, says Zardari By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Nov 4: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that some people might feel that parliament was still under assault from certain quarters, but these were teething troubles of a genuine democratic transition and “the dying kicks of the old order”...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Three shot dead in Hyderabad By Mohammad Hussain Khan HYDERABAD, Nov 4: After months of sectarian and ethnic killings and incidents of targeted shootings in Karachi, the wave of lawlessness appears to have taken hold of Hyderabad, the second largest city of Sindh. Two members of the non-political Dawoodi Bohra community were shot dead on Saturday night and three men belonging to an organisation of Barelvi school of thought were killed on Sunday night in the Gari Khata area...
Dual office threat ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari indicated on Sunday that he was not worried about a recent decision of the Supreme Court barring the presidency from taking an active part in politics. “The presidency has witnessed such tough times in the past as well,” he told a reporter after the inaugural ceremony of the conference of the Association of Saarc Speakers and Parliamentarians. The president did not elaborate and walked away reciting a famous verse: “Badalta hai rang aasman kaisay kaisay (how the sky turns its colours, taking on strange hues).”...
PML-N wants polls held immediately By Khalid Husnain LAHORE, Nov 4: PML-N information secretary Senator Mushahidullah Khan has called for holding general elections immediately and urged the PPP-led government to announce the date and form a caretaker government in consultation with the leader of opposition. “Because of the bad governance we believe that the elections must be held immediately...
MQM to hold referendum on 8th, despite Taliban threat By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Nov 4: Unfazed by a Taliban threat, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement announced on Sunday that it would hold a referendum across the country on Nov 8 in what appears to be an attempt to unite the nation against the militant organisation. Addressing a press conference, senior MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar said people would be asked in the referendum whether they wanted a Pakistan of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah or of Taliban...
PPP maintains uncanny silence over Raisani’s fate By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Nov 4: While the beleaguered Chief Minister of Balochistan, Nawab Aslam Raisani, is virtually running from pillar to post to save his job, the top PPP leadership is maintaining an uncanny silence over what appears to be an internecine warfare. Neither President Asif Ali Zardari, who is the final authority in affairs of the ruling party, nor other office-bearers of the PPP, including General Secretary Senator Jahangir Badar, has said anything about the crisis which the PPP in Balochistan is facing. There was no answer to repeated telephone calls and text messages left on the cellphone of Mr Badar...
Race to the finish line — Romney, Obama in swing states By Anwar Iqbal and Masood Haider WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Nov 4: US President Barack Obama spent the final hours of his re-election campaign, touring five swing states and urging his supporters to turn up in large numbers on Tuesday. His Republican challenger Mitt Romney also spent the final hours in swing states of Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania with the same message for his supporters: come out and vote...
Three workers shot dead in Turbat By Amanullah Kasi QUETTA, Nov 4: Three labourers hailing from Punjab were gunned down in Turbat district on Sunday, Levies Force sources said. The labourers were at a bus stand in Mund bazaar of the district when gunmen attacked them. The victims – Mohammad Viqas, Ibrahim and Mohammad Khalid – belonged to Dera Ghazi Khan and Hafizabad districts...
Kargil war remarks fail to impress BJP, Shiv Sena: Time for quid pro quo, Rahul tells opposition By Jawed Naqvi NEW DELHI, Nov 4: At a massive rally in Delhi on Sunday, evidently organised to signal Rahul Gandhi’s anointment as captain of a battered ship, India’s Congress party put all its bets on more pro-market measures, wooing Wal-Mart as a pivot for the farmers’ welfare and seeking the opposition’s support for its unalloyed capitalist trajectory on the grounds that it had stood by the opposition during the Kargil war with Pakistan. Inevitably, the Kargil comment by Rahul Gandhi turned into a sparring match with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had used the heavily televised battle to extract a wafer-thin electoral victory in 1999...
Six dead in Motorway bus crash By Nabeel Anwar Dhakku CHAKWAL, Nov 4: Six people were killed and 30 others injured when a bus overturned on Motorway in the Salt Range on Sunday morning. According to police sources, about 48 people were going from Nowshera to Raiwind to attend the annual religious congregation there...
Malala walking, talking and reading: envoy DUBAI, Nov 4: An ambassador has said that Malala Yousufzai is making steady recovery and is starting to walk, talk and read. Jamil Ahmed Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, made the comments on Sunday after speaking to British officials and the father of Malala Yousufzai, who is in Birmingham, England...
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