DINA for the issue of November 25, 2012

	Sunday 25th November 2012 | Muharram 10, 1434
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Almost 600,000 taxpayers missing from tax net By Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The bad news about Pakistan’s weak tax system never stops coming. The latest revelation emanating from the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) is that nearly 600,000 taxpayers have ‘mysteriously disappeared’ from the tax net in the past one year.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Cowasjee is no more By Shazia Hasan KARACHI, Nov 24: Ardeshir Cowasjee, a Dawn columnist, philanthropist and shipping tycoon, died at a hospital here on Saturday afternoon. He was 86. Mr Cowasjee, who was in frail health after suffering a femur fracture in August, was admitted to the National Medical Centre due to pneumonia some 10 days ago. He was in the intensive care unit when he breathed his last.
No shutdown in many KP areas: Malik warns phone firms of stern action By Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Despite specific instructions from the interior ministry that mobile phone networks be shut down for up to 14 hours on Saturday and Sunday because of security concerns related to Muharram, the service remained open in Peshawar and some other towns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday. Although the province has borne the brunt of the terror spectre stalking the country, the service remained shut for only three hours in its capital – from 3pm to 6pm.
Seven mourners die in D.I. Khan blast By Muhammad Irfan Mughal DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Nov 24: Seven people, three children among them, were killed and 27 others injured when a bomb exploded during a Muharram procession in Bannu Chungi area of the city on Saturday. Police sources said the bomb, laced with ball-bearings, was concealed in a garbage dump near a mosque along the procession route.
Govt working on bill to bar judges with dual nationality By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: After the parliamentarians, armed forces personnel and civil servants, judges may now have to face the dual nationality bar. Dawn has learnt that a draft 24th Constitution (Amendment) Bill is being prepared by the Law Ministry which aims to bar the judges from possessing dual nationality and the same will be presented during the next session of Senate along with the 22nd and 23rd Constitution (Amendment) Bills.
Judges defy Morsi decree, call for nationwide strike CAIRO, Nov 24: Defiant Egyptian judges hit back at President Mohamed Morsi on Saturday, demanding he reverse a decree giving himself sweeping powers that put him beyond judicial oversight and calling for a nationwide strike. Egypt’s Judges Club, a body that represents judges from across the country, called for “the suspension of work in all courts and prosecution administrations,” after several hours of emergency talks in response to what they called Mr Morsi’s “ferocious attack on Egyptian justice”.
15 killed in bus crash near Karak By Nasir Iqbal Khattak KARAK, Nov 24: Fifteen people, two women and a girl among them, were killed and 25 others injured when a bus rammed into a truck on the Indus Highway here on Saturday. The bus with at least 50 passengers on board was going from Karachi to Peshawar when it collided with the truck near Speena Banda, a dangerous mountainous portion of the Indus Highway.
Turgut Ozal was poisoned? ISTANBUL, Nov 24: An autopsy of the exhumed remains of Turkish president Turgut Ozal, who died in office in 1993, revealed the presence of four poisons, the pro-government daily Today’s Zaman reported on Saturday. Pathologists discovered the presence of the insecticide DDT at 10 times the level considered normal, as well as traces of the heavy metal cadmium and both polonium and americium, two radioactive substances, the paper said, quoting the Forensic Medicine Council.
Defiant girl revisits scene of Kabul massacre KABUL, Nov 24: In a brave gesture of defiance against suicide bombers, Afghanistan’s “girl-in-green” on Saturday revisited the scene of an Ashura massacre last year that made her image world famous. Tarana Akbari, now 13, was pictured screaming in horror among piles of bodies moments after a suicide bomber killed 80 people at a shrine in Kabul.
New city within Dubai planned DUBAI, Nov 24: Dubai, famed for its mega-projects before it was hit by the global financial crisis, on Saturday announced a plan to open the world’s biggest mall and a park larger than London’s Hyde Park. The ruler of the Gulf desert city state, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, announced the plan for a “new city within Dubai,” according to an official statement, naming it after himself.
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