DINA for the issue of 4th December, 2012

	Tuesday 4th December 2012 | Muharram 19, 1434
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Abduction of son: Mother puts blame on banned group By Malik Asad ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Terrorism suspects and court cases involving missing people have been a dime a dozen since 9/11 in Pakistan...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 36.22 Points: KARACHI, Dec 03: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16537.64, down 36.22 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Dec 03: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 97.7 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Pakistan ‘working with US’ for Afghan peace By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Dec 3: Pakistan was pressing forward with facilitating the peace process in Afghanistan and had showed no hesitation in enabling talks between Afghan and Taliban leaders, a senior US official said on Monday. The official, while briefing the media on key US-Pakistan talks in Brussels on Monday night, noted that Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States had already formed a group for providing safe passage to Taliban leaders for talks with Afghan officials...
Cleric’s killing sparks violence in Karachi KARACHI, Dec 3: A teacher of a seminary was among at least seven people shot dead in Karachi on Monday. The killing of Mufti Mohammad Ismail off Abul Hasan Ispahani Road triggered violence in parts of Gulshan-i-Iqbal and at least five vehicles were torched and many others damaged in arson and armed attacks that brought life to a standstill in various areas...
NA committee to take up tax issue with govt By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The owners of compressed natural gas (CNG) stations offered on Monday to open their outlets to facilitate consumers provided the gas companies restored their supplies disconnected for non-payment during the ongoing dispute over pricing. The offer came from the All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) when a sub-committee of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources, led by MNA Jamshed Dasti, informed it that the legislators’ panel would request the government and the Supreme Court to treat the CNG sector equitably with other sectors in gas pricing...
Closer Pakistan-Iran military ties proposed By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The first Pakistan-Iran parliamentary dialogue on security recommended on Monday contacts between military and intelligence leaders of the two countries to address the underlying mistrust that refuses to go despite enhanced political exchanges keenly flaunted by both countries. The Senate Defence Committee, which has broken taboos in the realm of national security by opening up debates on defence budget, counter-terrorism policies, civil-military relations, had this time invited a delegation of Iranian parliament led by Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman, National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Majlis-i-Shura, for security dialogue...
President signs act for extending LG system to Pata By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: President Asif Ali Zardari signed on Monday an act allowing introduction of the local government system in Provincially-Administered Tribal Areas (Pata). The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) LG Act, 2012, will be extended to Pata, which comprises five districts — Chitral, Malakand, Swat, Dir and Kohistan. “Under this decision, local government institutions will be established in Pata,” the president’s spokesman, Farhatullah Babar, said...
Ministry refuses NA panel’s plea for list of loan defaulters By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The finance ministry has expressed its inability to provide lists of bank loan defaulters to the National Assembly’s special committee on foreign and domestic loans and said the matter is outside its purview. Mansoor Qureshi, the director-general of the ministry’s debt coordination office, told a committee meeting on Monday that the lists of defaulters were available with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and the ministry could not ask it to release them. He advised the committee to take up the issue with the SBP...
Gunmen wound Swedish woman By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, Dec 3: Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and severely wounded an elderly Swedish woman at her Model Town residence on Monday. Bargeeta Almby — the 70-year-old managing director of the social wing of an NGO called Full Gospel Assemblies of Pakistan (FGA Church) — was attacked when she reached her home in a car from her Kot Lakhpat office at around 2pm...
PIA blames govt policy on foreign airlines for its woes By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The Pakistan International Airlines bemoaned in the Supreme Court on Monday that the unilateral grant of liberal traffic rights to foreign airlines was one of the reasons for the national flag carrier’s decline. A day before the hearing of a case relating to rampant corruption in PIA, its management submitted a report to the court highlighting the airline’s history, issues affecting profitable operations and the reasons for its continued downward slide...
Balochistan PA session ends abruptly after Malik’s no show By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Dec 3: A special session of the Balochistan Assembly convened for an in-camera briefing by the interior minister on serious law and order situation in the province ended after just two minutes as Rehman Malik did not turn up. The special session was convened by the provincial governor on the advice of the chief minister for a briefing in camera to lawmakers by the interior minister on the law and order situation in the province...
‘Three Cups of Tea’ author ‘took his life’ WASHINGTON, Dec 3: The co-author of “Three Cups of Tea”, the best-selling but disputed tale of an American mountaineer who built schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has committed suicide, officials said on Monday. David Oliver Relin, 49, died on Nov 15 as a result of “blunt force head injuries”, a medical examiner in Multnomah County, Oregon, said...
Chinese firm to pay $2m for US export violations WASHINGTON, Dec 3: A company owned by the Chinese government has pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate nuclear export restrictions on Pakistan and agreed to pay $2 million to the US in fines. The China Nuclear Industry Huaxing Construction Co., pleaded guilty on Monday and received a $2 million criminal fine — half of which won’t have to be paid if the company meets the conditions of a five-year probation...
Nato says it recognises Pakistan’s sacrifices BRUSSELS, Dec 3: Nato stressed on Monday the importance of its relations with Pakistan in the fight against terrorism as the military alliance prepares the way for its 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan. “Most urgently, we need to remain united to defeat terrorism,” Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen told visiting Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar...
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