DINA for the issue of November 27th, 2012

	Tuesday 27th November 2012 | Muharram 12, 1434
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Appointment of judges: Minister given go-ahead to file reference By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: After resolving the Swiss letter issue, Law Minister Farooq H. Naek is working now on questions relating to the appointment of superior courts judges which the government intends to put before the Supreme Court in the form of a presidential reference...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 25.98 Points: KARACHI, Nov 26: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16263.57, up 25.98 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Nov 26: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 97.1 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Malik offers amnesty to banned groups By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Monday that the government was ready to give a general amnesty for all proscribed organisations, including Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, if they renounced terrorism. “If proscribed organisations agree to cooperate with the government and give up terrorism, they will be removed from the list of banned organisations,” the interior minister said at a press conference here on Sunday...
Turkish power plant must pay $120m: SC By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The Supreme Court settled a repayment dispute on Monday, directing the National Accountability Bureau to recover $120 million from a 232MW barge-mounted Turkish rental power plant. NAB Director General (Operations) Shahbaz Bhatti informed a three-judge bench that $120m was outstanding against the plant, Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretin AS Turkey. But NAB Prosecutor General K.K. Agha said that the final decision had to be taken by the bureau’s chairman...
CNG stations closed as talks fail By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Amid a deadlock on the issue of CNG prices, owners of CNG stations announced on Monday closure of their outlets, saying they could no more bear losses and subsist on loans. At a meeting chaired by Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) chairman Saeed Ahmed Khan and attended by representatives of the ministries of petroleum and finance, a delegation of the association of owners of CNG stations presented a three-point pricing formula, seeking reduction in taxes and withdrawal of cross-subsidy being paid by the CNG sector...
Death toll from killer ‘cough syrup’ rises to 16 By Asif Chaudhry LAHORE, Nov 26: Sixteen people have died after drinking a toxic cough syrup here over the past three days. The first death was reported on Saturday and the toll rose to 16 when six people died in Mayo Hospital on Monday. It was the second major drug-related ‘tragedy’ in Lahore over the past year. Earlier, reaction to a heart drug had claimed the lives of more than 150 cardiac patients and affected the health of thousands of others. A report on the scam is yet to be made public...
Militants threaten peace committees’ supporters By Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL, Nov 26: Proscribed militant organisation Lashkar-i-Islam have asked residents of Bara to dissociate themselves from pro-government peace committees and threatened attacks against those ignoring the warning. The LI men distributed threatening leaflets among people and pasted posters in the area over the past two days...
‘Malala ahead of Obama among world thinkers’ By Our Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov 26: Malala Yousufzai is number six on US magazine Foreign Policy’s list of 100 top global thinkers in 2012. She is ahead of US President Barack Obama who is number seven. The other three Pakistanis on the list are former Pakistani ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani, his wife Farahnaz Ispahani and blogger Sana Saleem...
Family of four among seven killed by van fire By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, Nov 26: Seven passengers, among them four of the same family, were killed and four others injured when a fire broke out in a moving van reportedly due to gas leakage near Manga Mandi on Monday. The van was coming to Lahore from Sahiwal when the incident took place in the vicinity of Shamkey Bhattian area on Multan Road, a spokesman for the National Highways and Motorways Police said...
Senior TV anchor escapes attempt on life Bureau Report ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Hamid Mir, the television anchor and journalist, escaped an attempt on his life on Monday as police defused a bomb placed under his car in Islamabad. The Taliban had criticised Hamid Mir last month after the shooting of Malala Yousufzai, the teenage activist from Swat. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the device was found stuck under the front passenger seat of his car, police said...
Ex-judges restrained from releasing detailed verdicts By Malik Asad ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The Islamabad High Court restrained on Monday two former additional judges from releasing detailed judgments on short orders they had pronounced before the expiry of their term in office. In letters addressed to former Justices Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui and Noorul Haq N. Qureshi, IHC Registrar Niaz Mohammad Khan referred to a judgment reported by the Supreme Court Monthly Review of 1997 titled ‘the state versus Asif Adil’ and informed them that “no short order/detailed reasons for the short order (if written) can be issued, written or signed after your honours have ceased to be additional judges of this court”...
Shells fired by Iran land in Chagai By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Nov 26: Iranian border forces have fired mortar shells which landed and exploded near a border area in Chagai district. “Twelve to 15 mortar shells exploded between the border pillar No 12 and 15 between the night of Sunday and Monday,” Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussian Durrani told to Dawn. However, no casualty was reported as the area is a desert along with Pak-Iran border...
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