DINA for the issue of 22nd January, 2013

	Tuesday 22nd January 2013 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 9, 1434
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Policy of non-escalation to be pursued with India: Khar By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told the National Assembly at the start of its new session on Monday that Pakistan would stick to its policy of non-escalation of tensions with India after a recent deadly flare-up between the two sides over the military Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 32.86 Points: KARACHI, Jan 21: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 16634.63, up 32.86 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Jan 21: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.4 to the US Dollar in the open market.
ECP stops pre-election recruitment, uplift fund diversion By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: Taking notice of an alleged ‘jobs for votes’ campaign launched by some government departments ahead of polls, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) banned on Monday all recruitments at the federal, provincial and local government levels with immediate effect. According to the directive, the ban will not apply to inductions made through the federal or provincial public service commissions...
Investigator’s death: NAB plans its own inquiry By Syed Irfan Raza and Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will initiate its own investigation into Kamran Faisal’s mysterious death if the bureau officials are not satisfied with the probe being conducted by a judicial commission formed by the government on Sunday. “We will reject findings of the commission if colleagues of Kamran Faisal are not satisfied with it,” NAB Chairman Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari was quoted as saying at a marathon audio/video conference and meeting with senior officials of the bureau on the death of the NAB assistant director...
Raja withdraws review plea in RPP case By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: In a surprising move Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf withdrew on Monday his review petition against the Supreme Court’s March 30, 2012, verdict declaring the government’s rental power policy non-transparent. “My client wishes to withdraw the petition,” Advocate Waseem Sajjad, representing the prime minister, informed a bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...
Prices of petrol, kerosene raised By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: The Ministry of Petroleum announced on Monday increase in prices of petrol, kerosene, jet fuels, HOBC, LDO and reduction in High Speed Diesel (HSD). A notification issued by the ministry said the price of petrol had been hiked by Rs1.65 per litre to 103.15 per litre and that of HOBC by Rs2.50 per litre to Rs129.96...
Drastic changes in Ogra structure, powers planned By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: Amid controversies over the build-up of Rs11 billion gas theft and system losses in consumer-end tariff and liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, the government has decided in principle to drastically change the structure and powers of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) and remove petroleum secretary Dr Waqar Masood Khan. A senior official told Dawn on Monday that a bill seeking amendment to the Ogra Ordinance 2002 had been sent to the federal cabinet for approval...
CID officials remanded in police custody for kidnapping By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, Jan 21: Anti-Terrorism Court judge Mohammad Ismail remanded three police officers of the Crime Investigation Department and another person in police custody on Monday for a week in a kidnapping case. SP Tariq Manzoor, DSP Qutab Khan, DSP Bilal Ahmed and Hussain Lango, who were booked in the kidnapping for ransom case, were produced in the court amid tight security...
Obama begins new term with pledge to end war By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Jan 21: US President Barack Obama began his second and final term on Monday with a pledge to move America away from wars abroad to refocus on economic recovery at home. In his inaugural speech, America’s first coloured president also stressed the need for legalising hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants...
US envoy reviews F-16 programme By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: The US ambassador reviewed the F-16 aircraft programme along with Pakistan’s Air Chief on Monday and visited the Shahbaz Airbase, home to Pakistani F-16s. Ambassador Richard Olson and Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt attended a meeting to review the programme at the Air Headquarters here. Then the US diplomat travelled to Jacobabad for an on-site briefing on the programme, flaunted by the Americans as “flagship symbol of post 9/11 bilateral re-engagement”...
Two security men killed By Our Correspondent GHALANAI, Jan 21: Two security personnel were killed and 11 others injured when a landmine exploded during a search operation in a militant-infested area of Mohmand Agency on Monday, official sources said. Security forces with the help of Khasadars (tribal police) and volunteers of a peace Lashkar were conducting the search operation in Kanra village, Pandyali tehsil, when the landmine planted by militants went off, the sources said...
Steps to stop polio virus exportation urged BBy Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Jan 21: The Prime Minister's Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell, World Health Organisation, Unicef and partners in Pakistan's Polio Eradication Initiative have called for urgent pre-emptive measures against exportation of the polio virus after positive samples linked to the Sukkur district were discovered in Egypt, officials said on Monday. “Two sewage samples collected from the Al Salam and Al Haggana areas of Cairo district and analysed in a laboratory bore resemblance to a strain discovered recently in sewage water tested in Sukkur,” said a joint statement of Prime Minister's Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell, World Health Organisation and Unicef...
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