DINA for the issue of 31st December, 2012

	Monday 31st December 2012 | Safar 17, 1434
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PPP-Q alliance in trouble By Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE, Dec 30: The Pakistan People’s Party has started short-listing its candidates, especially in Punjab, without consulting its ally, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Jaish-ul-Islam claims responsibility20 Shia pilgrims killed in Mastung attack By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Dec 30: A car bomb hit a convoy of three Iran-bound buses in Mastung district on Sunday, setting one of the buses on fire and killing at least 20 Shia pilgrims and injuring 25 others. The pilgrims belonged to different parts of Punjab. The other two buses were partially damaged...
PM asks PAF to airlift bodies By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf directed the Pakistan Air Force on Sunday to immediately send a C-130 aircraft to airlift the bodies of pilgrims killed in a terrorist act earlier in the day in Mastung district of Balochistan. He asked the Balochistan government to provide best possible medical care to the injured, according to a press release issued by the media wing of the prime minister’s secretariat...
Rs2bn tax evasion detected By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Dec 30: The FBR’s Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation has unearthed a case of tax evasion of around Rs2 billion on imports. In pursuance of information regarding massive evasion of duty & taxes and misuse of rules, the staff of the Directorate General of Intelligence & Investigation-FBR, Regional Office, Karachi, has unearthed a case of tax evasion on imports of around Rs2 billion...
Provinces demand 40pc representation in federal bodies By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Dec 30: Having secured significant additional revenues and powers under the 18th constitutional amendment and 7th National Finance Commission award, the provinces have formally sought at least 40 per cent representation in boards of all federal entities and regulators in the Federal Legislative List (FLL). Although some important members of the federal cabinet are against yielding more ground to federating units, significant sections in the federal and provincial leadership want to settle the issue or at least set the way forward before completion of five-year constitutional term of the current set-up in March...
22nd Levies soldier dies in hospital Bureau Report PESHAWAR, Dec 30: A kidnapped militiaman, who survived a Taliban atrocity and was admitted to a hospital with serious injuries late on Saturday night, died on Sunday, raising the number of the slain Levies Force personnel to 22. The nightmarish episode began early on Thursday when militants attacked posts of Levies Force in Hasankhel and Jina Kor areas of Frontier Region Peshawar. Two militiamen were killed by the attackers who overran the posts before taking away 23 personnel...
Probe into Osama death: PM likely to receive report this week By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Dec 30: The much-awaited report of the investigation into the US attack in which Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was killed has been completed and is likely to be presented to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf this week by the Abbottabad Commission’s chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal. The report prepared in more than one and a half years is expected to generate a fresh debate on the killing of Osama in a 40-minute midnight air raid by US Navy Seals in Abbottabad on May 2 last year...
Two soldiers killed in N. Waziristan explosion By Pazir Gul MIRAMSHAH, Dec 30: Two soldiers were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Gherlamai area of North Waziristan on Sunday. Helicopter gunships fired at residential compounds after the bomb attack and, according to local people, a house caught fire and several others were damaged...
Woman who pushed man to death on train track faces murder charge By Masood Haider NEW YORK, Dec 30: A woman who shoved a man off a subway platform into the path of a speeding train said she did so because she hated Hindus and Muslims, officials said on Saturday. The woman was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime, New York City authorities said...
Assault victim cremated amid calls for India to make country safe for women NEW DELHI, Dec 30: The victim of a gang-rape and murder which triggered an outpouring of grief and revulsion across India was cremated at a private ceremony on Sunday as it emerged she was planning to marry in February. The unidentified 23-year-old, the focus of nationwide protests since she was attacked on a bus in New Delhi two weeks ago, was cremated at a ceremony kept secret by authorities only hours after her body was repatriated from Singapore...
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