DINA For the Issue of November 09, 2012

	Friday, November 09, 2012 | Zilhaj 23, 1433
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Taliban attack on Rangers leaves 3 dead in Karachi By S. Raza Hassan KARACHI, Nov 8: An explosives-laden truck rammed into paramilitary Rangers compound, in city’s North Nazimabad area on Thursday morning, killing three personnel and leaving over a dozen people wounded...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Ban imposed on cellphone number portability By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The government has banned mobile number portability (MNP), barring cellular phone subscribers from switching over to other networks while retaining the number issued by the first service provider. The decision was taken at a meeting, presided over by Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday. The meting discussed the law and order situation, particularly in Sindh and Balochistan, and security arrangements for Muharram. Top police officers and home secretaries from the provinces, representatives of intelligence agencies and senior officials of the interior ministry attended the meeting...
Police to help power firms recover dues By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The Council of Common Interests (CCI) approved a novel way on Thursday for recovery of outstanding electricity bills throughout the country. The federal and provincial governments unanimously decided to use police force, whose expenditure would be borne by electricity distribution companies. The decision was taken at a CCI meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, and attended by all four chief ministers, an official statement said...
Detailed judgment in Asghar Khan case issued: Unlawful orders by military officers are culpable: SC By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: In its detailed verdict in the Asghar Khan case issued on Thursday, the Supreme Court held that unlawful orders by superior military officers or their failure to prevent unlawful actions by their subordinates were culpable. Although the judgment dwelt at length on the role of the president, it did not specifically point finger at President Asif Ali Zardari...
Announcement ITHE offices of Dawn will remain closed on Friday (Nov 9) on account of Iqbal Day. Arrangements have, however, been made to bring out the newspaper on Saturday.
Review petition filed in Balochistan case: Court trying to assume powers of 58(2b): govt By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The federal government again emphasised before the Supreme Court on Thursday that it was not the court’s function to evaluate the performance of a political government and that too while dealing with political questions. In its petition seeking review of the apex court’s Oct 12 interim order on the situation in Balochistan, the government argued that the order amounted to assuming by the court defunct powers of Article 58(2 b) of the Constitution under which elected governments had been sent packing in the past...
320MW being supplied by Wapda withdrawn: Senate committee orders arrest of KESC chief By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Thursday brought double jeopardy for the Karachi Electric Supply Company: the Council of Common Interests headed by the prime minister and comprising four chief ministers ordered withdrawal of 320MW electricity being supplied by Wapda to the utility and a parliamentary committee ordered the arrest of its chief executive officer. In a rare exercise of its powers, the Senate’s standing committee on water and power ordered the interior secretary and the Sindh chief secretary to arrest KESC chief executive officer Tabish Gohar and present him before it on Dec 3 for his consistent refusal to attend proceedings despite repeated notices....
SC verdict in the Asghar Khan case: An interesting peek into minds of then military bosses By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The Supreme Court’s detailed verdict in the Asghar Khan case also gave an interesting peek into the minds of then top military bosses indicating why they thought the government of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was a security threat. Former Sindh chief of Military Intelligence (MI) Brig (retd) Hamid Saeed, who had submitted a statement to the apex court, claimed that in the early 1990 Benazir Bhutto had publicly criticised the army for crossing the red line by enriching uranium to a level which was not acceptable to big powers...
FO brings up drone issue in reaction to Obama win ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Pak-US relations may lately have turned the corner, but troubles of the past few months were reflected in the Foreign Office’s reaction to President Obama’s re-election, although with a positive spin. “Actually the issues of divergence between the two countries as you pointed out, particularly the drone attacks, are also in a way points of convergence in a sense that both sides are conscious of the fact that this issue has to be taken care of,” FO spokesman Moazzam Khan said while replying to a question about how Obama’s victory could affect the trajectory of the bilateral relationship....
Cellphone service with India likely By Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The Ministry of Information Technology has agreed to allow mobile phone services between Pakistan and India but certain issues have to be settled in this regard, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Commerce was informed here on Thursday. The committee expressed displeasure over the lack of modern communication facilities between the two countries....
Thackeray’s threat to cricket series rebuffed: Shinde will meet Malik to inaugurate new visa regime By Our Correspondent NEW DELHI, Nov 8: Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde rebuffed on Thursday the Shiv Sena’s threat to disrupt the upcoming cricket series with Pakistan and said he would receive his Pakistani counterpart soon to inaugurate a new visa regime between the two countries. Mr Shinde told Press Trust of India in Mumbai that sports and politics should not be mixed, as the cricket series would pave the way for improving ties between India and Pakistan....
Filmmaker jailed NEW YORK, Nov 8: The California man behind an anti-Islam film that shook the Middle East and most of the Muslim world was sentenced on Wednesday to a year in prison for violating his probation stemming from a 2010 bank fraud conviction by lying about his identity. —Correspondent
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