DINA for the issue of 21st December, 2012

	Friday 21st December 2012 | Safar 7, 1434
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Makhdoom of Rahimyar Khan to be new Punjab governor By Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE, Dec 20: President Asif Ali Zardari has offered the post of Punjab governor to provincial president of Pakistan Muslim League-F Makhdoom Ahmed Mahmood and the offer has been accepted...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 45.95 Points: KARACHI, Dec 20: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16915.78, up 45.95 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Dec 20: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 98.6 to the US Dollar in the open market.
‘Fair trial bill’ passed in big compromise By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: Amid a big show of political accommodation, the National Assembly passed a bill on Thursday to permit state interception of private communication mainly to track terrorists, after the government accepted 32 amendments proposed by the main opposition party. The Investigation for Fair Trial Bill, which needs approval also by the Senate to become law, will allow security agencies to collect evidence “by means of modern techniques and devices” like wire-tapping and intercepting emails and SMS text messages that will be accepted in a court in cases registered under five security-related laws...
Parties attend ECP consultative session: Only MQM opposes Karachi delimitation By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) virtually isolated itself from other political parties when it opposed the delimitation of constituencies in Karachi at a meeting the Election Commission had convened on Thursday. It was a consultative meeting presided over by Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim. The parties were asked by the commission to make written comments on how to modify the existing boundaries with maps illustrating desired changes...
Rs52.8m refunds claimed on fake invoices By Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: A gang of fraudsters who are believed to have issued fake invoices in the name of bogus companies to claim millions of rupees in refunds or input tax adjustments from the sales tax department has been busted in Karachi. An FIR has been registered against M/s Mars Chemicals and 24 other firms which received Rs52.806 million against bogus/fake invoices, an official in the Regional Tax Office-II, Karachi, told Dawn...
Injured polio worker dies Bureau Report PESHAWAR, Dec 20: While a team of anti-polio campaign escaped a gun attack in Multan on Thursday, a vaccinator injured in a suspected militant attack a day earlier died here in the Lady Reading Hospital. Twenty-year old Hilal Ahmed had suffered a bullet injury in his head in the suburbs of Peshawar...
Ulema slam attacks on vaccinators KARACHI, Dec 20: Religious scholars belonging to different schools of thought criticised on Thursday the attacks on people involved in polio eradication efforts. Talking to APP, they said that efforts to eradicate polio virus and protect children from being crippled were the responsibility of all sections of society...
Journalist, two others shot dead By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Dec 20: A local journalist and two other people were shot dead in Bolan district late on Thursday night. Levies sources said a group of armed men intercepted a bus coming from Quetta on its way to Punjab on Quetta-Sukkur highway in the Machh area of Bolan district and kidnapped six passengers...
Balochistan official facing cabinet’s pressure, SC told By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: The Supreme Court heard on Thursday allegations that Chief Secretary of Balochistan Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad was being pressurised by the provincial administration to ignore illegal practices which could lead to a breakdown of law and order in the strife-torn province. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard a petition of the Balochistan High Court Bar Association (BHCBA) highlighting the rising incidents of terrorism, kidnapping for ransom and enforced disappearance...
NAB smells rat in 3G licence auction process By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has raised questions about the process being adopted for auctioning 3G licences in the country. “The NAB finds hiring of consultants for 3G/4G Spectrum (modern cellular phone technology) licences’ auction not in line with the Pakistan Procurement Regulatory Authority rules,” NAB spokesman Zafar Iqbal said on Thursday...
Modi wins Gujarat, eyes bigger role By Jawed Naqvi NEW DELHI, Dec 20: The Bharatiya Janata Party kept its hold on Gujarat for the fifth time in a row on Thursday but lost power to the Congress Party in Himachal Pradesh by a whisker thus setting up a keen contest in the general elections widely expected to be called earlier than mid-2014 when they are otherwise due. By winning a hat trick under his leadership albeit by a reduction of two seats from his last tally of 117, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi took a step closer to staking his claim as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate in the next polls. He has the support of key business captains including Ratan Tata and both the Ambani brothers...
Tax amnesty bill faces objections in Senate By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: Senate Chairman Nayyar Bokhari on Thursday stopped Minister of State for Finance Salim Mandviwala from tabling the `tax amnesty bill’ in the Senate after treasury and opposition members raised questions over its legal and constitutional status. The objection came first from Pakistan People’s Party’s Raza Rabbani who was later joined by Opposition Leader Ishaq Dar of Pakistan Muslim League-N. The two were of the view that presenting of the proposed law in the Senate in the form of a “money bill” was a “serious violation of the Constitution”...
‘Complementary’ raids carried out in border areas By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Dec 20: From mid-August to late September, the Pakistani military, the US-led International Security Assistance Force and the Afghan military have conducted a number of complementary operations in the border areas, says a Pentagon report. The report, which is sent to the US Congress under the National Defence Authorisation Act, states that “complementary operations” were conducted in the border areas of Nuristan, Kunar, Nangarhar, Paktiya, Khost, and Paktika in Afghanistan...
Dawn’s former senior staffer M.A. Majid passes away By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Dec 20: Distinguished journalist and a senior Dawn staffer M.A. Majid passed away after a prolonged illness here on Thursday. He was 79. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. M.A. Majid was born in Sylhet, a city in northeast Bangladesh (then part of India) on March 4, 1933. He did his bachelors in arts from Islamia College Karachi in 1956...
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