DINA for the issue of 10th January, 2013

	Thursday 10th January 2013 | Safar 27, 1434
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Parliamentary panel wants Parco, PSO MDs arrested By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: A parliamentary sub-committee ordered on Wednesday arrest of the managing directors of two leading energy companies — Pakistan State Oil and Pak Arab Refinery Limited — for not appearing before it to testify over a large quantity of diesel and furnace oil from a pipeline jointly owned by them...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 89.19 Points: KARACHI, Jan 09: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16734.95, up 89.19 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Jan 09: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 98.9 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Pakistan, India want to avoid escalation: India’s ‘deepest concern’ conveyed to Pak diplomat By Jawed Naqvi NEW DELHI, Jan 9: India strongly protested to Pakistan on Wednesday over the alleged killing of its two soldiers by Pakistani troops in a cross-border raid in Kashmir on Tuesday, but Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid also said that the issue should not be escalated any further. Pakistan’s High Commissioner Salman Bashir was summoned by Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Wednesday to convey New Delhi’s anger. Mr Bashir, speaking to the media later, denied India’s charge...
Pakistan, India want to avoid escalation: Pakistan proposes investigation by UN group By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: Pakistan proposed on Wednesday a UN probe into two attacks across the Line of Control (LoC) over the past few days and called for insulating the progress in bilateral ties from negative propaganda. “Pakistan is prepared to hold investigations through the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan on the recent ceasefire violations on the LoC,” Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Khan said...
Taliban must join talks, says Malala’s father PARIS, Jan 9: The Taliban are fighting a lost cause and must accept peace talks, the father of Malala Yousufzai said on Wednesday, accepting a key French award for the schoolgirl shot for campaigning for girls’ education. In an impassioned speech after accepting the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom on behalf of the 15-year-old, Ziauddin Yousufzai said his daughter was supported by the world and by God...
PPP reaffirms resolve to hold timely polls By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI, Jan 9: The People’s Party categorically stated on Wednesday that it would not allow postponement of elections even for a day on any pretext and reiterated its stance that polls would be held on time as stipulated in the Constitution. A meeting of senior PPP leaders presided over by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf noted that if timely elections could be held in war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq there could be no reason for not doing so in Pakistan. ..
Ex-chief of Ogra nabbed in Abu Dhabi By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: After hiding from the law for over eight months, the main character in a Rs82 billion scam — former chairman of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Tauqeer Sadiq — has been arrested in Abu Dhabi with the help of Interpol, a senior official of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said on Wednesday. A NAB insider said a team was leaving for Abu Dhabi on Thursday to obtain custody of Sadiq. He is expected to be brought to Pakistan ‘in 48 hours’. The accused was arrested by International Police (Interpol) which has informed NAB about it...
Delimitation: MQM’s petition admitted for hearing By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: The Supreme Court on Wednesday admitted for hearing a review petition moved by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) against its direction to conduct a fresh delimitation of constituencies in Karachi. Headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a five-judge bench ordered the registrar office to fix the MQM’s review petition case which was earlier returned by the court office by raising some objections...
Big difference in number of voters in rolls of ’08 and ’13 By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: A yawning gap between the number of voters in most constituencies for National Assembly in the voters’ lists for the 2008 polls and those listed for 2013 elections has raised questions about the accuracy of electoral rolls. Both the increase and decrease in the number of voters in the rolls prepared for 2013 elections over that in the list for earlier elections exceed 100,000 in around two dozen constituencies. The decrease in a constituency in Balochistan is as high as about 250,000 and the maximum increase of 192,000 is in a constituency in Punjab...
Transporters halt supplies for Nato forces By Imran Ayub KARACHI, Jan 9: Supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan through the country which were resumed in July last year after remaining blocked for seven months have come to a halt again because transporters want an end to the bonded carrier system of transportation and reject installation of trackers in their vehicles under new regulations of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). Leaders of transport associations and hundreds of people associated with the business converged in Shireen Jinnah Colony and Mauripur -- two major parking areas of hundreds of oil tankers and container-laden trailers -- on Wednesday and held protests against the FBR regulations...
Literary critic Dr Siddiqui passes away By Peerzada Salman KARACHI, Jan 9: Dr Mohammad Ali Siddiqui, critic, educationist and a scholar of Urdu literature, passed away here on Wednesday. He was 74. He was admitted to hospital a couple of weeks ago when his blood pressure shot up, affecting his brain and kidneys...
Pakistan’s role stressed: White House says all troops may leave Afghanistan By Our Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan 9: The United States has hinted at the possibility of withdrawing all its troops from Afghanistan by 2014 and has also emphasised Pakistan’s role in bringing stability to the war-ravaged country. “We very much support a Pakistani role, because there has to be a regional buy into the future of stability in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia,” White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told abriefing in Washington...
Domestic workers in Asia worst off: ILO report By Amin Ahmed ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: The largest number of domestic workers — 21.5 million — are employed in the Asia-Pacific region and 80 per cent of them are women, according to a report released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Wednesday. The domestic work sector employs more than 3pc of all paid employees in the region. According to the ‘Domestic workers across the world’ report, there were 52.6m domestic workers across the world at the end of 2010. They cook, clean and take care of a myriad of other daily duties in households. About 8.9m men are employed by private households, typically as gardeners, chauffeurs or security guards...
Shahzeb murder suspect Shahrukh Jatoi traced in Dubai By S. Raza Hassan and Wajih Ahmad Shaikh KARACHI / LAHORE, Jan 9: The main suspect in the Shahzeb murder case, Shahrukh Jatoi, is in Dubai but the UAE government is in no hurry to detain him apparently because of a lack of coordination between foreign offices of the two countries, sources told Dawn on Wednesday. Dubai police might arrest him in a few hours if there was proper coordination between the two governments, the sources said...
Pakistani’s book shortlisted for prize HONG KONG, Jan 9: A debut novel and a work by a Nobel laureate were among five books shortlisted for Asia’s most prestigious literary prize on Wednesday, with entries across the region from Turkey to Japan. The shortlist for the $30,000 Man Asian Literary Prize was drawn from a long list of 15 published works, after 108 entries were submitted to a panel of judges led by literary critic and journalist Maya Jaggi...
Maintain peace and stability, urges US By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Jan 9: The United States has once again urged India and Pakistan to maintain peace and stability in their region as the two neighbours also appeared determined to prevent this week’s clashes along the Line of Control from escalating into a major crisis. “Of course, we all hope — and our Pakistani and Indian partners hope — that we can maintain peace and stability in the region,” said Pentagon Press Secretary George Little when a journalist reminded him that the reported clash along the LoC had become a national issue in India...
Man jailed for 10 years in blasphemy case By Nabeel Anwar Dhakku CHAKWAL, Jan 9: After a trial spread over 14 months and conducted in an uneasy environment, Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Pervez Akhtar jailed a blasphemy accused for 10 years and imposed a fine of Rs200,000 on Tuesday evening. The verdict left the lawyers of both groups baffled and they now intend to go to the Lahore High Court — one would file an appeal for getting the sentence quashed while the other would file a review petition...
UN calls for restraint along LoC By Masood Haider UNITED NATIONS, Jan 9: The United Nations on Wednesday urged India and Pakistan to “respect ceasefire and de-escalate tensions” through dialogue following the recent breakout of hostilities along the Line of Control in Kashmir. “The United Nations Mission in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) is aware of the alleged incidents,” a spokesman for UN Secretary General said in a press statement, noting that “Pakistan Army and Indian Army are in contact via hotline”...
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