DINA for the issue of 18th December, 2012

	Tuesday 18th December 2012 | Safar 4, 1434
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Full-scale’ operation needed: KP Car bomb goes off in Jamrud; 19 killed By Ibrahim Shinwari JAMRUD, Dec 17: At least 19 people, among them women and children, were killed and 71 others injured when a powerful car bomb ripped through the Jamrud bazaar in Khyber Agency on Monday, officials and witnesses said...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks down 46.16 Points: KARACHI, Dec 17: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16798.93, down 46.16 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Dec 17: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.3 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Tax amnesty bill introduced in NA By Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Preferring short-cuts to extend a major relief to the elite ahead of the general election, the PPP-led coalition government introduced on Monday the controversial tax amnesty bill in the National Assembly to whiten black money and assets at home and abroad within three months against a nominal one-time charge. The proposed bill will not only cover non-filers of tax returns but also those who did not figure on the tax roll to whiten income or assets up to Rs5 million and above in a period of three months...
Balochistan PR official, two cops shot dead By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Dec 17: The Balochistan government’s public relations director and two policemen were gunned down here on Monday morning, police said. Mirza Khadim Hussain Noori, 56, was going to his office when men riding a motorcycle opened fire at his car near Shahrah-i-Iqbal. The official, who was driving the car himself, died on the spot...
Summary for LG polls in cantonments submitted By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The defence ministry has submitted a summary to the prime minister for holding local government (LG) elections in cantonment areas after a gap of 14 years. “A summary has been moved and after approval of the prime minister, it will be forwarded to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for holding elections in cantonment areas,” Commander Shahbaz Hussain, Director (Legal), Ministry of Defence, informed the Supreme Court on Monday...
Heretics liable to be slain, says note found on militant’s body By Ismail Khan PESHAWAR, Dec 17: “My name is Musa’b and I am from Dagestan (Russia),” so wrote one of the militants who ended up fighting, holed up inside an under-construction house, barely a kilometre away from the scene of Saturday night’s brazen attack on the Pakistan Air Force base inside the Bacha Khan International Airport. The handwritten letter, written in Urdu, was found on Musa’b’s body after he was killed in Pawaka village, along with four others, the day after the assault on the airfield. It gives a rare insight into the mindset of militants indoctrinated to fight Pakistani forces, and also points to the growing role of foreign militants in attacks inside Pakistan...
Election Commissioner of Sindh transferred By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: As the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) gets ready to redefine limits of constituencies in Karachi and again verify the city’s voter lists, the Sindh Election Commissioner, Sonu Khan Baloch, has been removed from his position. Instead, he has been appointed as the director general (budget) at the ECP headquarters. “This is not a routine transfer and has been necessitated by the demand of various political parties that see him as the key player behind the ‘systematic disenfranchisement’ of voters in Karachi,” official sources told Dawn...
Altaf seeks advice over his future By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Dec 17: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has appealed to the party’s workers and sympathisers to give their opinion whether he should quit the leadership and leave politics if they thought the situation may further deteriorate in the wake of his decision to face ‘every challenge’. According to an MQM statement released from London on Monday evening, Mr Hussain said that he was consulting legal experts after the issuance of a contempt notice by the Supreme Court...
Women MPs slam Imran for opposing quota ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Women parliamentarians from both sides of the aisle criticised Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan on Monday over his remarks against reserved seats for women and challenged him to compare his educational credentials with theirs. Speaking on a point of order, PML-N MNA Anusha Rehman questioned whether Imran or his party had rendered any sacrifice for democracy or brought any legislation to parliament...
PM’s relative for WB post: SC takes suo motu notice ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Supreme Court took notice on Monday of the nomination of a son-in-law of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf as the country’s representative in the World Bank. The suo motu notice was taken after publication of reports in the press. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, has been constituted to take up the matter on Wednesday...
Gas utilities on verge of bankruptcy, court told By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The country’s two main gas utilities told the Supreme Court on Monday that they could go bankrupt if they were penalised for not meeting the international standard of maintaining gas losses at three to five per cent of the total supply. Their overall losses currently stand at 16 per cent...
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