DINA for the issue of January 21, 2013

	Monday 21st January 2013 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 8, 1434
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Judicial inquiry ordered into NAB official’s death By Syed Irfan Raza and Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: The government formed a judicial commission on Sunday to ascertain the cause of the ‘mysterious’ death of Kamran Faisal, an assistant director of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), who was investigating the Rs22 billion rental power scam, said a notification received by the interior ministry...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Zardari starts assessing performance of PPP legislators By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Jan 20: President Asif Ali Zardari is reported to be evaluating the performance of members of national and provincial assemblies belonging to the Pakistan People’s Party from Sindh in order to decide whether or not to award party tickets to them in the next general election. Mr Zardari, who is also co-chairperson of the PPP, held separate meetings with lawmakers and party leaders from each district...
PML-N may not find it difficult to regain lost ground in Jhelum By Waseem Ashraf Butt GUJRAT, Jan 20: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz may not find it difficult to regain the lost ground in Jhelum even though its veteran leader Raja Mohammad Afzal and his two scions MNAs Raja Asad Khan and Raja Safdar Khan broke their decades-old affiliation with the Sharifs on Saturday. The PML-N believes that Rajas’ change of heart may rather prove beneficial for the party which has its reliable votes bank in the district...
Constitutional crisis brewing in Balochistan By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Jan 20: A serious constitutional crisis is in the making in Balochistan with the speaker summoning a session of the provincial assembly on a requisition signed by 19 legislators. Speaker Syed Matiullah Agha summoned the session on Monday evening, disregarding the fact that the province is under governor’s rule..
Parliament to review ‘siege’ and backlog By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: Both houses of parliament meet on Monday to begin sessions that will likely review a virtual siege of the capital last week in the name of a conjured up ‘revolution’ and take up some of the legislative backlog to be disposed of before coming elections. The government will have to do some hard explaining how Allama Tahirul Qadri, head of Minhajul Quran non-governmental organisation, was allowed to bring tens of thousands of people threatening to topple it so close to its centre, before taking credit for a peaceful end to a dreadful spectacle that could have spilled blood...
NAB investigating members of Raisani govt By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, Jan 20: The National Accountability Bureau in Balochistan has widened the scope of its investigation into a corruption case and included some members of the cabinet of former chief minister Nawab Aslam Raisani. Sources in NAB said here on Sunday that the bureau had started investigation against five more former ministers for their alleged involvement in embezzlement of government funds and other irregularities, including illegal recruitments in different departments.
PM’s legal team pins hopes on NAB’s stance By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and his coalition partners may have succeeded in effectively handling Dr Tahirul Qadri’s march on Islamabad but his government is still not completely out of the woods in the rental power projects (RPP) case. Although the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Admiral Fasih Bokhari forcefully contested the Supreme Court’s directive last week to arrest all accused in the case, including Prime Minister Ashraf, senior legal advisers of the government are keeping their fingers crossed about the likely attitude of the court during the next hearing on Jan 23...
PML-N seeks electoral alliance only in provinces By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: The Pakistan Muslim League-N is unwilling to form a countrywide electoral alliance, but is interested in arrangements at provincial level, background interviews with some leaders of the party suggest. “We are heading towards an alliance in Sindh and are also working on a similar one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” PML-N Information Secretary Mushahidullah Khan told Dawn on Sunday...
Rahul says power is poison, but he’s accepting it for the poor By Jawed Naqvi NEW DELHI, Jan 20: In an emotional speech after taking over the mantle as Congress party’s vice-president in Jaipur on Sunday, Rahul Gandhi told his cheering supporters that power was poison, but he was accepting it to empower the poor. “Last night each one of you congratulated me. My mother came to my room and she sat with me and she cried... because she understands that power so many people seek is actually a poison,” Mr Gandhi said...
Despite curbs on target killings, CIA to get free hand in Pakistan By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Jan 20: The Obama administration is finalising a rule book for target killings but these restrictions will not apply to Pakistan where the CIA will be free to direct drone strikes in Fata. The classified manual, called a counter-terrorism “playbook”, sets out stringent rules for targeted killings and details the process of adding names to the so-called “kill list”...
Police leave for UAE to help NAB get Sadiq’s custody By Our Staff Reporter RAWALPINDI, Jan 20: A police team has left for Abu Dhabi to assist the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials who are in the UAE to obtain the custody of former chairman of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority Tauqeer Sadiq, Dawn has learnt. A senior police officer said the team led by SP Rana Shahid of the counter-terrorism wing had been constituted by the inspector-general of Punjab...
100,000 lady health workers get their service regularised By Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has approved regularisation of service of 105,086 lady health workers (LHWs), including their support staff, with effect from July 1 last year. He also approved the concurrence of the federal government to reimburse the entire financial impact of the measure, including arrears, to the provinces. He agreed to a proposal to put the issue of federal financing of the programme beyond 2015 before the forthcoming meeting of the Council of Common Interests for consideration and possible approval at the next meeting of the National Finance Commission...
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