DINA for the issue of 22nd December, 2012

	Saturday 22nd December 2012 | Safar 8, 1434
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Petrol price reduced By A Reporter ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority reduced on Friday price of petrol by Rs1.23 per litre and increased that of High Speed Diesel by 36 paisa...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 42.68 Points: KARACHI, Dec 21: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16865.34, down 42.68 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Dec 21: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 98 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Taliban ‘commander’ among four killed in blast By Sailab Mahsud LADHA, Dec 21: Four militants, a key Taliban ‘commander’ among them, were killed and six others injured in a blast in Rustam bazaar of South Waziristan on Friday. Maulvi Abbas, the Taliban commander, his son and two guards were killed when an IED (improvised explosive device) said to have been planted in his office by his rivals, went off. Six people were injured and were taken to agency headquarters’ hospital in Wana and a private clinic...
Court asks Zardari to appoint 2 IHC judges By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: The two judges of Islamabad High Court (IHC) who were sent home unceremoniously when their nominations following a judicial process were not approved by the highest authority are likely to be back in their office. A Supreme Court bench asked President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday to issue notifications about appointment of Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui as a regular judge and Justice Noorul Haq N. Qureshi as additional judge for six months as recommended by a Judicial Commission meeting on Sept 22...
ECP issues schedule for Karachi: Verification of voters to be completed by Feb 20 By Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: The Election Commission of Pakistan has devised a tight schedule for verification of electoral rolls in Karachi and hopes to complete the process in the last week of February, just weeks ahead of the expected general election. In line with a decision of the Supreme Court, the ECP approved on Friday the timetable for voters’ verification which would include verification and digitisation of people who obtained national ID cards between Sept 1 and Dec 15 this year...
Kerry named to succeed Clinton By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Dec 21: US President Barack Obama nominated on Friday Senator John Kerry as the next secretary of state, hoping for a smooth confirmation by the Senate.
Senators call for dual nationality bar on judges By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: Members of the parliament’s upper house on Friday called for legislation to place a bar on appointment of lawyers with dual nationality as judges and sought details of judges holding foreign citizenship. What prompted the PPP Senator and President Asif Ali Zardari’s spokesman to raise the issue in the house was Law Minister Farooq Naek’s response to a question about eligibility of citizens having dual nationality for appointment in the judiciary. Mr Naek had informed the Senate last month that there was no bar on superior court judges holding dual nationality...
Mahmood no more a PML leader, says Pir Pagara By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI, Dec 21: Pakistan Muslim League-Functional president Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi (Pir Pagara) has said that Makhdoom Ahmed Mahmood, who was party’s chief in Punjab, does not hold the position any more and his decision to accept the governorship of Punjab is his personal act. Addressing a press conference at his residence on Friday, Pir Pagara said: “We have taken a stand on certain issues being confronted by Sindh and it is not going to change after Mr Mahmood has been made the Punjab governor.”...
Puppeteer Faizan Peerzada dies at 54 By Shoaib Ahmed LAHORE, Dec 21: Puppeteer, painter, fashion designer and a master of light and sound Faizan Peerzada died here on Friday. He was 54. Peerzada, the face of Pakistan when it comes to holding international performing arts festivals in Lahore, is survived by a son and a daughter...
No security plan for polio teams in sight By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: The government has not announced any comprehensive plan for the security of polio vaccinators, even though nine of them have been gunned down in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this week. Interior Minister Rehman Malik has described the deaths as a result of the ‘failure of intelligence agencies’ to predict the attacks...
Punjab seeks postponement of games at eleventh hour By Mohammad Yaqoob LAHORE, Dec 21: Having failed to get a legal opinion on the status of the Punjab Olympic Association (PbOA), the Punjab government on Friday suggested postponement of the 32nd National Games. The games are scheduled to commence here on Saturday (today). The Punjab government was proposing postponement of the games at a time when contingents of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Fata, police, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan Railways and Islamabad have either reached Lahore or are expected to reach shortly...
Indian legal experts extend stay to finalise ToR By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: Indian legal experts visiting Pakistan for negotiations on the terms of reference (ToR) for travel of a second Pakistani judicial commission (JC) to India for collecting evidence in the Mumbai attack case, decided on Friday to extend their stay due to a sticking point in their talks. The Indian delegation which held talks with the Pakistani legal team led by Attorney General Irfan Qadir on Thursday was scheduled to depart on Saturday, but sources said the talks would now continue on Saturday as the two sides could not agree on the terms of reference for the upcoming visit of the Pakistani JC...
Woman gets prison term for export violations WASHINGTON, Dec 21: A judge has sentenced a woman to one year in prison for conspiring to ship material to Pakistan for a nuclear reactor. US District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on Thursday also ordered Xun Wang to pay a $100,000 fine and perform 500 hours of community service...
Thousands celebrate as world lives on MEXICO CITY, Dec 21: Thousands of mystics, hippies and tourists celebrated in the sunshine of southeastern Mexico on Friday as the Earth survived a day billed by doomsday theorists as the end of the world and a new era began for the Maya people. New Age dreamers, alternative lifestyle gurus and curious onlookers from around the world descended on the ruins of Maya cities to mark the close of the 13th bak’tun — a period of around 400 years — and many hoped it would lead to a better era for humanity...
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