DINA for the issue of 20th December, 2012

	Thursday 20th December 2012 | Safar 6, 1434
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ISI and its former chiefs enjoy immunity, says US By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Dec 19: The US State Department has informed a New York court that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and two of its former directors general “enjoy immunity” and cannot be tried in the Mumbai terror attacks case...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 14.16 Points: KARACHI, Dec 19: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16872.84, up 14.16 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Dec 19: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 98.8 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Khar invited by Saudi minister for consultations By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar received on Wednesday a sudden ‘invitation’ from Riyadh for ‘consultations’. The invitation delivered by Saudi Ambassador Abdul Aziz bin Ibrahim bin Salih Al-Ghadeer on behalf of Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud had signs of urgency as it asked Ms Khar to visit Riyadh “at her earliest convenience”...
Campaign suspended in KP: Fresh attacks on polio workers; two killed By Ali Hazrat Bacha and Faiz Muhammad PESHAWAR / CHARSADDA, Dec 19: Two polio workers were killed and another was injured in five gun attacks on vaccination teams in Charsadda, Peshawar and Nowshera districts on Wednesday. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government suspended the vaccination work as a mark of respect for the dead and injured workers...
PAC opposes allotment of farmland to generals By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly directed the Ministry of Defence on Wednesday to do away with the policy of allotting agricultural land to its senior army officers and stop the practice forthwith. A meeting of the committee presided over by its chairman Nadeem Afzal Gondal unanimously recommended immediate cancellation of a special incentive policy introduced by former prime minister Shaukat Aziz in 2006 under which bureaucrats who reach the maximum BPS-22 and judges of the Supreme Court are provided additional residential plots in Islamabad...
Parliament outraged by killings By Raja Asghar and Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: Both houses of parliament voiced outrage on Wednesday at “brutal killings” of female polio vaccinators in Karachi and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province over two days with demands for adequate protection of the workers. The National Assembly unanimously passed a joint resolution moved by three parties while only speeches were made in the Senate afterwards condemning the continued slaughter of the vaccinators apparently by religious fanatics opposing the anti-polio campaign...
President signs education bill KARACHI, Dec 19: President Asif Ali Zardari signed on Wednesday “The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill-2012” at a ceremony held at the Chief Minister’s House. The bill, which recognises the right to free and compulsory education for all children aged between 5 to 16 years, has become a law after the President’s assent. ..
SC summons Raja’s son-in-law over WB appointment By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The Supreme Court summoned on Wednesday Raja Azeemul Haque, a son-in-law of Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf, who has been nominated, out of turn, executive director of World Bank in Washington. Headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, a three-judge bench also asked Establishment Secretary Taimoor Azmat and Finance Secretary Wajid Ali Rana to appear before the court on January 4 along with the record and details about the appointment...
No-confidence move against Balochistan Assembly speaker questioned By Saleem Shahid and Amanullah Kasi QUETTA, Dec 19: Another controversy hit Balochistan on Wednesday after the provincial assembly’s secretary said the procedure adopted in tabling a no-trust motion against Speaker Aslam Bhootani earlier in the day was in violation of rules and regulations. Zahoor Ahmed said at a press conference that under the rules and procedures of the assembly, consent of the speaker was required for tabling any resolution, motion, bill or question in a session...
Petition against Zardari not maintainable: Qadir By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh LAHORE, Dec 19: The attorney general made some harsh remarks in Courtroom 1 of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday about a number of judgments handed down by superior courts. Irfan Qadir, the country’s top law officer, appeared before a full bench headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial and argued against the maintainability of a contempt petition against President Asif Ali Zardari...
Obama beats Malala in ‘person of the year’ race By Our Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec 19: Brave rights activist Malala Yousufzai was declared runner-up as Time magazine named President Barack Obama as its ‘person of the year’ for the second time on Wednesday. One newspaper here said: “Perhaps the most poignant alternative to Obama on Time’s shortlist was Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl who continued to campaign for the right to education after being shot and nearly killed by the Taliban.”..
Railways, PIA facing huge losses, Senate told By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The government admitted in Senate on Wednesday that losses in PIA and Pakistan Railways had gone up massively since the PPP-led government took power in March 2008. Defence Minister Syed Naveed Qamar told the house during the question hour that PIA had faced a loss of Rs42.4 billion in 2008 which now swelled to 141.4bn and Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour said total losses of Pakistan Railways stood at Rs16.85 billion when the government came to power in 2008 and these had now gone up to Rs31 billion with an average of Rs2.58bn a month...
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