DINA for the issue of 11th January, 2013

	Friday 11th January 2013 | Safar 28, 1434
The DAWN Internet News Alert (DINA) is a free daily news service from Pakistan’s largest English language newspaper, the Daily DAWN.
At least 93 lives lost in Quetta explosions By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Jan 10: As many as 81 people were killed and 121 injured in suicide and car bomb blasts in Quetta’s Alamdar Road area on Thursday night. Earlier in the afternoon, 12 people lost their lives when a bomb went off near a vehicle of the Frontier Corps at Bacha Khan Chowk...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 203.55 Points: KARACHI, Jan 10: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16538.67, down 203.55 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Jan 10: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 98.8 to the US Dollar in the open market.
22 die in Swat Tableeghi centre blast By Khalilur Rehman Bacha MINGORA, Jan 10: At least 22 people were killed and over 70 injured in a blast at a Tableeghi centre in the once militants’ infested district of Swat on Thursday. The cause of the blast in the basement of the centre on Takhtaband Road, some 5km southwest of Swat’s regional headquarters of Mingora, was not known, a senior official said...
Peace process remains unaffected: Khar By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Jan 10: Although riled over provocative Indian statements, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday that the peace process with India remained unaffected by recent ceasefire violations on the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir. “You asked whether this will set back or derail the process. I will hope not and I don’t see it derailing or getting set back,” she said at a media conference at the Foreign Office...
Firing by Indian troops kills another soldier By Tariq Naqash MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 10: A soldier was killed by Indian firing from across the Line of Control (LoC) in a southern border area of Azad Kashmir on Thursday. According to an ISPR statement, Havildar Mohyuddin died in the unprovoked Indian firing at around 2.40pm in Batal sector of Poonch district...
Qadri needs permission to march on capital: Malik By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Jan 10: The government has decided to prevent the long march by the Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) from entering Islamabad on Jan 14 unless it obtains a permission (No Objection Certificate) from the administration. “Dr Tahirul Qadri’s party has so far not applied for an NoC for the entry of its rally into the federal capital and even it gets permission, it will not be allowed to proceed into any commercial area, especially Blue Area or in front of Parliament House D-Chowk, in view of a possible terrorist attack on Tehrik’s chief and in view of demands by Islamabad’s traders community,” Interior Minister Rehman Malik said at a press briefing on Thursday...
Coalition parties support govt By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI, Jan 10: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf held a meeting with leaders of allied parties at the Bilawal House on Thursday and exchanged views on the current situation in the country with special focus on energy issues, law & order and coalition matters. All coalition partners reiterated their full support to the government during the meeting, said spokesperson to President Senator Farhatullah Babar...
Altaf reiterates support for Qadri’s march By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Jan 10: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain reaffirmed on Thursday that his party would definitely join Dr Tahirul Qadri’s long march and asked critics if religious and other political parties, including the Pakistan People’s Party, had not organised such marches in the past. In a telephonic address from London which he termed a ‘political drone attack’, Mr Hussain said democracy without local bodies was nothing but a fraud. “If the government wants to remove the Sindh governor let it do today. Despite being an ally of the government we will participate in the Jan 14 march on Islamabad.”...
Shahzeb murder case: Sikander Jatoi held outside SC By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Jan 10: The father of Shahrukh Jatoi, the main suspect in the Shahzeb Khan murder case, was arrested moments after he stepped out of the Supreme Court building on Thursday after a three-judge bench had distanced itself from his request for relief. When the bench closed its proceeding in the murder case, Sikander Jatoi was encircled by personnel of Sindh police...
LNG import process begins By Shazia Hasan KARACHI, Jan 10: As the process of opening tenders for import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) begins, gas distributors appear optimistic about their ability to fill the gap between demand and supply. The shortage of natural gas has severely impacted life in the country, leaving the gas distributors with no other choice but to look for other resources such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and LNG...
‘Neighbours capable of resolving issue’ By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Jan 10: The United States believes that India and Pakistan are capable of investigating recent LoC violations, although it would back a UN-led probe if both countries agreed, says the US State Department. On Wednesday, Pakistan rejected Indian claims that its troops had killed and mutilated two Indian soldiers and offered to get the matter investigated by the UN Military Observers Group...
India against UN investigation into LoC violation By Jawed Naqvi NEW DELHI, Jan 10: A day after its main opposition party urged India to put all the facts before the world to “name and shame Pakistan” for its alleged transgression of the Line of Control in Kashmir, New Delhi backtracked from a third party probe of the incident amid reports Thursday that a hawkish brigadier from its own army may have been at the heart of the current flare-up. “As far as this unprovoked attack is concerned, it is now incumbent on the government of India, since Pakistan still continues to give denial, to collect the entire evidence, including the identity of those Pakistani army officials and the groups guarding particular area who are responsible for this assault, place all these facts before the international community so that Pakistan can be named and shamed before the world at large for this brutal attack,” Bharatiya Janata Party’s senior leader Arun Jaitley had said. Mr Jaitley’s position brings him close to what Pakistan too has demanded...
Four killed in drone attacks By Our Correspondent MIRAMSHAH, Jan 10: Four militants were killed in pre-dawn drone attacks in Mirali sub-district of North Waziristan on Thursday, local tribesmen said. They said four missiles fired by drones hit a house and a motorbike in Hassokhel village in Mirali tehsil, some 35km east from here, at 2am...
Nawaz calls for dialogue to resolve border crisis By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, Jan 10: Regretting the situation across the Line of Control (LoC) over the past few days, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that Pakistan and India were the only countries in the world whose armies were still fighting on the borders. Addressing a multi-party conference convened by the Supreme Court Bar Association, the former prime minister said the situation on the borders should be normalised through dialogue...
Asfandyar invites president to APC on terrorism By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Jan 10: Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan urged political parties on Thursday to forge unity and devise a joint strategy against terrorism which was posing a threat to the state. Addressing a press conference at the Mardan House, he said ANP was organising an all parties’ conference on a single-point agenda “counter-terrorism and counter-extremism” and urged all political parties to participate in it...
Fresh probe PARIS, Jan 10: French judges on Thursday authorised a fresh probe against ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy as part of the so-called “Karachi affair”, a judicial source said, in the latest legal headache faced by the former leader. Three judges decided to proceed with a probe to see whether Mr Sarkozy violated a confidentiality law when the Elysee presidential palace published a press release on the affair in September 2011...
To subscribe or unsubscribe to this mailing list, please fill the form located at: http://www.dawn.com/alerts
DAWN Media Group, Haroon House, Karachi 74200, Pakistan	Copyright © 2012 Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt.) Ltd.