DINA for the issue of January 20, 2013

	Sunday 20th January 2013 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 7, 1434
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Pro-Raisani bloc requisitions session: Balochistan PA to meet tomorrow By Saleem Shahid LAHORE, Jan 12: Despite an assurance by the federal government about acceptance of his demands, Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran chief Allama Dr Tahirul Qadri is adamant on going ahead with his planned long march on Islamabad.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Pakistani’s funeral turns into anti-racist march ATHENS, Jan 19: Hun-dreds of demonstrators on Saturday paraded the coffin in central Athens of a Pakistani immigrant who was stabbed to death earlier this week, praying and opening the casket to show his face in protest at racist attacks in the country. About 5,000 immigrants and human rights activists later gathered in the city’s central Omonia square, police said, to demonstrate against racism, holding banners reading “Neo-Nazis out” and “Punishment for the fascist murderers of Shehzad Luqman”.
Preliminary report cites suicide as cause: Mystery still surrounds NAB official’s death By Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD, Jan 19: Mystery shrouds the death of Kamran Faisal, the NAB assistant director who was investigating the rental power projects (RPPs) scam, although the preliminarily autopsy report suggested it was a suicide. A magisterial inquiry under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code into the cause of the death is being carried out by a sub-divisional magistrate on the basis of statements by different people concerned. However, the matter is being investigated in detail by police.
Police officers held in kidnap for ransom case By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, Jan 19: The Frontier Corps, Balochistan, arrested on Saturday night three senior police officers of the CID for their alleged involvement in a case of kidnapping for ransom. Official sources said an FC team raided CID police office in Quetta and arrested SP Tariq Manzoor, DSPs Qutab and Bilal and five other personnel.
Nawaz slams duality in LB law HALA, Jan 19: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday that there shouldn’t be different local government laws in one province. Speaking at a public meeting organised by the Sindh United Party against the local government law adopted by the provincial assembly, he said politics should not be used to divide people. “The PML-N hates politics of division. Sindh province should be treated uniformly,” he said.
Convicts, deranged persons and govt servants can contest presidential election By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Jan 19: Believe it or not, convicts, mentally deranged persons and government servants can still contest election to the office of the president without fear of being disqualified. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) amended the rule governing the presidential election on Sept 10, 2007, to take away the provision for disqualification of presidential candidates --- less than a month before the polls comfortably won by the then military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf. Key opposition leaders Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif were in exile in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia respectively.
Pak policy not dictated by US, says Indian FM By Our Correspondent NEW DELHI, Jan 19: India has not been influenced by any foreign country, including the United States, in pursuing peace dialogue with Pakistan despite recent hiccups, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said on Saturday. There have been reports from Washington, which wants to see no distracting surprises ahead of the second-term swearing in of President Barack Obama and his new team, that the United States would hate to see trouble brewing between India and Pakistan.
Singer Mehnaz Begum dies By Peerzada Salman KARACHI, Jan 19: Renowned singer Mehnaz Begum passed away on Saturday. She was 55. Mehnaz was on a plane, going to the United States for treatment of a respiratory ailment when her condition worsened. During a stopover in Bahrain, she was taken to a hospital where she died.
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