DINA for the issue of 16th January, 2013

	Wednesday 16th January 2013 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 3, 1434
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SC strikes Raja with lightning bolt By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The breaking news about the possible arrest of the prime minister on Tuesday proved that the Supreme Court and the prime minister’s office never let someone else hog the limelight for long in Islamabad...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 514.06 Points: KARACHI, Jan 15: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16119.12, down 514.06 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Jan 15: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.1 to the US Dollar in the open market.
President extends stay in Karachi By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: President Asif Ali Zardari has decided not to return to the presidency in the presence of Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri in Islamabad. The president prefers to monitor fast changing political developments in Islamabad while sitting in Bilawal House, Karachi, for next few days despite the fact that he has been staying there for almost a month...
The NAB procedure The initial inquiry into the two RPP cases has been completed. The investigating officers have submitted their findings to the director general of NAB Rawalpindi who had forwarded these to the NAB headquarters in Islamabad for filing a reference against the accused...
Imran wants immediate resignation of Zardari By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, Jan 15: Coming up with his own seven-point agenda, having the immediate resignation of President Asif Ali Zardari on top of the list, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan has threatened to bring his activists to the street if his demands are not met. Presenting the seven-point charter of demands at a press conference here on Tuesday, he said President Zardari should immediately resign as elections under him could not be free and fair. He warned of organising the biggest protest demonstration in the country’s history if elections were rigged...
PPP, PML-N rue mutual distrust By Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE, Jan 15: Both the PPP and PML-N have turned ‘wise’ after the outcome of Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri’s long march, accusing each other of showing ‘leniency’. Leaders of the two parties Dawn spoke to on Tuesday expressed their ‘outrage’ over ‘safe passage’ provided by the Punjab and federal governments to Dr Qadri to reach Islamabad, allowing him to dictate terms. “Why the Punjab government did not detain Dr Qadri in the first place at his residence in Model Town. It is common knowledge that he does not have a second or third tier of leadership and had he been put under house arrest, hardly a couple of hundred of his supporters would have taken to the streets,” rued a PPP MPA...
KSE index loses 525 points By Dilawar Hussain KARACHI, Jan 15: The Karachi Stock Exchange Index of 100 shares came crashing down by 525 points to settle at 16,108 points on Tuesday. It represented the heaviest single-day decline in over four years, since May 2008 and wiped off Rs130 billion from the market capitalisation. The market, already jittery over the outcome of Dr Tahirul Qadri’s long march, took full brunt of the blow of totally unexpected Supreme Court order for the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, which triggered panic selling, mainly by punters and speculators. Traders said that dozens of scrips touched their ‘lower locks’ — representing maximum of 5 per cent of the value that a stock could shed in a day. Fear of ‘margin calls’ forced weak holders to unwind their long positions. Due to extreme volatility, volume of shares traded jumped to 239 million which was almost three times the turnover of 88m shares on Monday...
A grand spectacle in Islamabad By Khawar Ghumman and Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The grand spectacle continued to entertain all through Tuesday. The first scene took place shortly around two in the morning on Tuesday when Dr Tahirul Qadri finally drove on to the Jinnah Avenue with his juggernaut of vehicles and workers...
Soldier dies in Indian firing RAWALPINDI, Jan 15: Indian troops again resorted to ceasefire violation and carried out unprovoked firing this evening at the Line of Control in Hot Spring and Jandrot sectors from 2200 to 2300 hours, says a statement issued by ISPR. It said the firing killed Naik Ashraf at Kundi Post. He is survived by a wife and three daughters...
An unlikely avenger in a winter of shortages By Arifa Noor FOR years, armchair analysts have spoken of an Islamist takeover in Islamabad but not a single one predicted that the onslaught would be led by an English-speaking Barelvi who had been marked by the militants for his fatwa condemning terrorist attacks and suicide blasts as un-Islamic. Dr Tahirul Qadri, who does not like to be called a maulana, has emerged as an unlikely avenger of the people’s discontent in this winter of shortages...
Apex court assured of election on time By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The federal government assured the Supreme Court on Tuesday that general elections would be held on time and in a free and fair manner. “The federal government desires that free and fair elections be held in the country on time in accordance with the law and the Constitution,” stated a two-paragraph statement submitted by Attorney General Irfan Qadir...
Balochistan Assembly rejects governor’s rule By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Jan 15: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously adopted on Tuesday two resolutions which rejected imposition of governor’s rule in the province as an undemocratic move, demanded reversal and called for a judicial inquiry into the killing of Shia Hazaras in bomb blasts. The movers and supporters of the resolution said it was for the fifth time that an elected government of Balochistan had been dismissed by the centre. They warned Islamabad against pushing to the wall the people and political parties which stand for parliamentary politics and democracy...
Indian PM talks tough over LoC flare-up By Jawed Naqvi NEW DELHI, Jan 15: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday wound up a one-sided discourse led by irate TV channels and hawkish opposition leaders on the ongoing cross-border flare-up with Pakistan, as he asked Islamabad to punish the men who allegedly killed two Indian soldiers in Kashmir, though he refrained from publicly endorsing punitive measures urged by a restive military. “It cannot be business as usual” with Pakistan, he told reporters on the sidelines of an army function days ahead of the national military parade...
Bullet-riddled bodies of 8 people found By Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL, Jan 15: Bullet-riddled bodies of eight people were found in two houses in Bara on Tuesday evening. Sources told Dawn that five bodies were found in the house of Mughal Baz and three others in the house of Gul Jamal in Alamgudar area of Sipah. They said that all the bodies had multiple bullet injuries and it appeared the victims had been shot from a close range...
Pakistani hockey players sent home by India NEW DELHI, Jan 15: Nine Pakistani players in the fledgling Hockey India League were sent home on Tuesday following protests from rightwing parties. Hockey India secretary-general Narinder Batra said the decision was taken after discussion with the Pakistan Hockey Federation and the five teams because of rising tension on the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region...
Indians detain 10 fishermen By Iqbal Khwaja THATTA, Jan 15: Indian Navy personnel stopped a vessel in the Pakistani territorial waters and detained 10 fishermen on Tuesday morning. Sami Memon, media coordinator for the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), told reporters that the 10 fishermen were onboard Al Hassan (B-97215) vessel and were fishing about 50 nautical miles from the Kharochan shore when they were overpowered by the Indians...
PML-N may seek new PM By Amjad Mahmood LAHORE, Jan 15: Not happy with the Supreme Court’s decision in the rental power case at such a ‘crucial time’, the Pakistan Muslim League-N is considering suggesting that the Pakistan People’s Party bring an in-house change to replace Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf so that any serious fallout from the judicial verdict is averted. “We’re suggesting to the PPP to introduce a new person for replacing Prime Minister Ashraf instead of dillydallying with the Supreme Court orders as it may compound the situation to the disadvantage of all democratic forces,” sources in the PML-N told Dawn...
Khar calls for comprehensive approach against terror By Masood Haider NEW YORK, Jan 15: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has called for defeating the scourge of terrorism through a comprehensive approach that gives a push to efforts aimed at resolving long-festering conflicts and crisis spawning extremism. Addressing UN Security Council as Pakistan’s top diplomat on Tuesday, she said: “We should address the root causes of terrorism”...
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