DINA for the issue of November 08, 2012

	Thursday 8th November 2012 | Zilhaj 22, 1433
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Letter sent at last to Swiss authorities By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: The government has finally dispatched a letter to Swiss legal authorities in line with the Supreme Court’s order in the NRO case, seeking revival of a graft case which also involves President Asif Ali Zardari...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 166.71 Points: KARACHI, Nov 07: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16,217.85, up 166.71 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Nov 07: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 96.5 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Iran’s VP cancels Pakistan visit By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: In yet another major diplomatic setback for Islamabad in five weeks, Iranian Vice President Ali Saeedlou has cancelled his visit at the eleventh hour in an apparent indication of some underlying unease in bilateral relationship. The senior Iranian leader, who is also President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s point-man for foreign affairs, was due in Islamabad on Wednesday on a three-day visit for pushing the challenging Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project and other collaborative projects...
Obama gets four more years, but faces hostile House By Anwar Iqbal and Masood Haider WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Nov 7: US President Barack Obama cruised comfortably to a second term in the White House by winning 303 of the 538 Electoral College votes, (although main media outlets projected late in the day that he had also won the state of Florida, with 29 votes, taking his overall tally to 332). However, Obama’s popular mandate remains thin — 50 per cent against 48 per cent of his Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Mr Romney won 206 electoral votes against 270 needed to win...
Nawaz sees hope in CJ, COAS statements By Amjad Mahmood LAHORE, Nov 7: In contrast to the ringing of alarm bells by former army chief Gen Aslam Beg, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz does not see any threat to the system in the statements of COAS Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. “The central point in both the speeches by the chief justice and the army chief is to ensure predominance of Constitution and law, which is a matter of great satisfaction and symbolically reflects hope for a new emerging Pakistan,” PML-N president Nawaz Sharif said in a statement on Wednesday...
LNG import agreement signed with Qatar DOHA, Nov 7: Pakistan and Qatar agreed on Wednesday to collaborate in energy and trade and discussed formalities for Pakistan importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). President Asif Ali Zardari met Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabar Al Thani and discussed ways of promoting trade and investment ties to add substance to bilateral relations...
SP among 5 killed in Peshawar suicide attack By Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR, Nov 7: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van in the Qissakhwani bazaar on Wednesday, killing a senior police officer, his two bodyguards and two civilians. The attack also left 27 people injured. Police officials told journalists that SP (Investigation) Hilal Haider (50) was going from his residence in Koacha Risaldar to his office in Police Lines. When his van was in front of the Khan Raziq Police Station the bomber blew himself up...
Polling station can’t be changed without voters’ consent: SC By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: The Supreme Court has sought a policy statement from the Election Commission about removing errors from fresh electoral rolls and said that changing the place of voting from one city to another without the consent of the voters concerned would vitiate impartiality of the elections. “The ECP has no authority to change the polling station,” Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry observed...
Report sought on recovery of Rs22bn from Turkish firm By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Apparently concerned by the possibility of a rental power producer leaving Pakistan without settling a dispute over repayment of Rs22 billion, the Supreme Court ordered the National Accountability Bureau on Wednesday to submit a report on progress in recovery of the amount. The court issued the order on a letter recently written to the chief justice by PML-Q leader and former federal minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat...
Fuel supply to Nato troops via Torkham restored By Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL, Nov 7: Supply of fuel to Nato troops through the Torkham border post resumed on Wednes- day after one year when two oil tankers crossed into Afghanistan amid tight security. The fuel supply remained suspended despite resumption of overall supplies in July this year after the US apologised to the government over the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a Nato air strike on the Salala checkpost in Mohmand Agency in November last year...
Altaf urges dialogue between institutions LONDON, Nov 7: The chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf Hussain, said on Wednesday that the crisis in which the country had been plunged by exchange of words between the army and the judiciary was not imaginary. He said in a statement that he was the only person who had sensed frictions between state institutions and warned on several occasions that the country needed stability and unity...
16 govt entities resisting audit, AGP tells Senate committee By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Reporting irregular, illegal and objectionable expenditures of Rs1.858 trillion by federal and provincial governments during the last financial year (2011-12), the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) astonished a parliamentary committee on Wednesday by disclosing that 16 government entities using public money were still resisting mandatory constitutional audits. Besides such violations of rules, regulations and constitutional requirements, the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue was informed that Balochistan had not even set up a public accounts committee (PAC) since the current government assumed power in 2008 and hence there was no system of constitutional scrutiny of public accounts of the provincial government...
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