DINA for the issue of 29th December, 2012

	Saturday 29th December 2012 | Safar 15, 1434
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Elders’ help sought for getting militiamen released By Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR, Dec 28: The political administration has asked elders of the Frontier Region Peshawar to help the government to recover by Monday the 23 personnel of Levies kidnapped by the Taliban on Thursday...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 51.58 Points: KARACHI, Dec 28: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16943.90, up 51.58 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Dec 28: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 98.2 to the US Dollar in the open market.
N-League calls for immediate poll date By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: The opposition PML-N has alleged that conspiracies are being hatched to postpone general elections and called for immediate announcement of date for the polls. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, PML-N Deputy Secretary-General Ahsan Iqbal praised the chief election commissioner’s statement that elections would be held on time and in a free, fair and transparent manner...
YouTube ban likely to be lifted By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Good news for YouTube users: The government has decided to lift a ban imposed about three and a half months ago because of anti-Islamic material on the video-sharing website. Interior Minister Rehman Malik tweeted on Friday that the decision had been taken to reopen YouTube after a meeting with relevant quarters...
Hafeez given task: Govt to tell nation about ‘economic successes’ By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and his cabinet colleagues believe they need to be tutored to explain the PPP government’s economic achievements to the public. Having been briefed about economic indicators presented to them by the finance ministry at a recent meeting of the federal cabinet, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh was directed to prepare bullet points for all ministers so that they could be used in the PPP’s election campaign...
India level series with T20 win AHMEDABAD, Dec 28: After posting a huge total of 192 for five, India survived Pakistan skipper Mohammad Hafeez’s scare to narrowly defend it by 11 runs in the second T20 International to level the series 1-1 here on Friday. Hafeez scored 55 runs off 26 balls and brought the team near a victory. But other batsmen failed to keep up the momentum.—PPI
PPP among parties not yet eligible for poll symbol By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: As of Friday, 80 parties of the 216 registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan, have fulfilled the criterion for allocation of election symbol. According to an ECP official, the ruling PPP has not yet provided details of its annual accounts and intra-party elections, which are a must to be declared eligible for the allotment of election symbol...
Balloting on motion against Bhootani: NAB chief takes suo motu notice of ‘irregularities’ By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) decided on Friday to launch an investigation against members of the Balochistan Assembly who had shown their ballot papers during voting on a no-confidence motion against Speaker Aslam Bhootani on Wednesday. This is the first time that the NAB has taken notice of what it has called ‘violation of the secret ballot’ by members of any legislature...
Cough syrup kills 15 in Gujranwala: report By Asif Chaudhry LAHORE, Dec 28: With medicines-related tragedies continuing to occur in Punjab, 15 residents of Gujranwala died on Wednesday and Thursday after consuming a cough syrup. A report sent to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif by Health Secretary Arif Nadeem on Friday said the ‘killer drug’ had been identified as Dextromethorphan cough syrup manufactured and distributed by Lahore-based Ethical Laboratories (Pvt)...
Mehsud wants Pak-US ties severed Taliban: ‘open to talks’, but won’t disarm PESHAWAR, Dec 28: Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud said in a video released on Friday that his organisation could be open to talks with the government, but rejected the idea that his men should give up their guns before such negotiations. Mehsud, who has a $5 million US government bounty on his head, said the militant group would consider negotiations with the government but only if it abandoned ties with Washington...
Seven die in North Waziristan drone attack By Our Correspondent MIRAMSHAH, Dec 28: Seven people were killed and three others injured when missiles fired by drones hit a house at Gurbaz town in North Waziristan on Friday, local officials said. They said six drones fired two missiles each into the house in Shawal area, 65km to the west of Miramshah near the border with Afghanistan...
Renounce violence, Taliban told Dawn Report A NUMBER of private news TV channels quoted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain as saying in reaction to the video that the government had not asked the Taliban to surrender their arms. Instead, he said, it wanted the Taliban to renounce violence before any talks could be held with them...
Anti-India protests in Kashmir SRINAGAR, Dec 28: Indian forces on Friday killed two suspected militants in a gunbattle and wounded seven civilians later during anti-India protests in Indian-held Kashmir, police said. Two army officers and one policeman were injured in the fighting in Chandigam, a village 45km south of Srinagar, said a police officer...
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