DINA for the issue of December 19, 2012

	Wednesday 19th December 2012 | Safar 5, 1434
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Drive to continue in Balochistan By Saleem Shahid QUETTA: The Balochistan government has decided to continue the anti-polio drive in Quetta, Pishin and Qila Abdullah districts...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 66.38 Points: KARACHI, Dec 18: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16867.40, up 66.38 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Dec 18: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.3 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Vaccination campaign stalled in Sindh: Five women polio workers killed Dawn Report KARACHI / PESHAWAR, Dec 18: Five women vaccinators were killed and a couple of their male colleagues were injured on Tuesday in dastardly and apparently coordinated gun attacks within a short span of time in Karachi and Peshawar, compelling the Sindh health authorities to immediately suspend a three-day polio eradication campaign in the province. Four workers were killed in Karachi’s different Pakhtun-dominated areas where a day earlier a young volunteer associated with the campaign had been gunned down...
FTO office cited in probe into tax report By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: The Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly asked the Federal Board of Revenue chairman on Tuesday to investigate if Federal Tax Ombudsman Shoaib Suddle had provided information to a non-governmental organisation which had recently issued a report on alleged tax evasion by parliamentarians. Presiding over a meeting of the PAC, its chairman Nadeem Afzal Gondal said the committee was against tax evaders, but nobody had the right to leak information about any individual which was not allowed under rules...
PAF academy in Risalpur attacked; 18 injured By Suhail Kakakhel NOWSHERA, Dec 18: At least 18 people, among them seven security personnel, were injured on Tuesday when two masked men on a motorcycle hurled grenades at them near the PAF Academy Risalpur. Official sources said a large number of job-seekers were waiting at Gate No 3 of the academy for interview when the attack took place...
Committee to propose anti-graft measures By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari, appeared before a four-member committee of the federal cabinet on Tuesday and explained his claim that Rs12 billion corruption was being committed in a day, or Rs5 trillion in a year, in the country. The committee, headed by Law Minister Farooq H. Naek, decided that it would meet every day for a week and submit its recommendations to the government for eradicating corruption...
Altaf orders end to anti-SC protests By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Dec 18: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has asked leaders and workers of his party to cancel all protests and demonstrations and refrain from using ‘inappropriate language’ against the judiciary. According to a statement issued in London on Tuesday, he also urged MQM workers not to go to the Supreme Court on Jan 7 and ‘respect the sanctity of the court’...
$700m to be reimbursed by US By Masood Haider NEW YORK, Dec 18: The United States would reimburse to Pakistan some $700 million for the cost of stationing 140,000 troops on the border with Afghanistan, in an effort to normalise support for the Pakistani military after nearly two years of crises and mutual retaliation, the New York Times reported on Tuesday citing Pentagon officials. The biggest proponent of putting foreign aid and military reimbursements to Pakistan on a steady footing is the man President Barack Obama is leaning towards naming as secretary of state: Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, the newspaper said...
Cantonment boards: Court asks ECP if it can hold LG polls at this stage By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: The Supreme Court asked the Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday if it could hold local government elections in cantonment boards when the general election was already due in the country. “Notice to the ECP to submit whether it could be possible for the commission to hold local government (LG) elections when the general election is also due in the country,” the court said in its order...
Registrar’s refusal to appear before PAC will be taken to NA By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: After huffing and puffing for over a week, the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly decided on Tuesday to take the issue of Supreme Court registrar Dr Faqir Hussain, who refused to appear before the PAC, to the house for a final word. “We have decided to take the issue of SC registrar’s appearance before the committee back to the National Assembly for further clarity to avoid much-talked about clash between parliament and judiciary,” PAC chairman Nadeem Afzal Gondal briefed reporters after an in-camera meeting of the committee...
Warrants for Musharraf in judges’ detention case ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: A court here on Tuesday issued warrants for Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s arrest in the judges’ detention case. Civil judge-cum-judicial magistrate Abbas Shah issued the warrants on a request of the SHO, Secretariat Police, against the former president for allegedly detaining over 60 judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, following proclamation of the state of emergency in the country on Nov 3, 2007...
Number of Muslims to grow fastest WASHINGTON, Dec 18: Pakistan and 10 other countries with the largest number of Muslims are also home to two-thirds (66 per cent) of all Muslims, says a survey released on Tuesday. The largest share – 13pc – lives in Indonesia, followed by India 11pc, Pakistan 11pc, and Bangladesh 8pc...
Govt fails to approve guidelines for determining CNG prices By Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: The woes of the CNG sector refuse to go away despite a lapse of 52 days as the government’s top economic policy-making body failed on Tuesday to approve policy guidelines that could lead to announcement of consumer prices for the sector. The hope for a complete opening of CNG filling stations subsided following the ritual decision of the government to constitute a committee, headed by the law minister, to look into the issue instead of approving the new prices determined by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra)...
67 journalists killed in 2012 By Masood Haider and Anwar Iqbal NEW YORK / WASHINGTON, Dec 18: At least 67 journalists were killed worldwide in direct relation to their work by mid-December, a 42 per cent increase over 2011, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday. The report said combat-related deaths in Syria and targeted murders in Somalia, Pakistan and Brazil were the driving forces behind a sharp rise in press fatalities in 2012. CPJ is also investigating the deaths of another 30 journalists to establish whether these were work-related...
Four suspected militants killed in Kashmir SRINAGAR, Dec 18: Four suspected militants were killed in a gunfight on Tuesday, police in Indian-held Kashmir said. Superintendent of Police Imtiyaz Hussain said that police and Indian army launched a joint operation after receiving a tip that several militants were hiding in a house in the town of Sopore and added that at least four suspects were killed in the daylong gunbattle...
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