DINA for the issue of 11th February, 2013

	Monday 11th February 2013 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 29, 1434
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Missing: the boy on the bicycle By Mohamed Hanif SIX years after Hafiz Saeed Rehman went missing from Sariab Road Quetta, the police dug up a grave to look for him. The High Court ordered that a body be exhumed because Quetta police, after giving half a dozen other explanations for his disappearance, had started saying that Hafiz Saeed had been killed. His father Allah Bakhsh Bangulzai who has been campaigning for his son’s release for nine years, didn’t believe the police. “I knew it wasn’t his grave, I knew my son wasn’t dead,” insists Allah Bakhsh, who runs a small grocery store near his house. Allah Baksh Bangulzai’s faith wasn’t just the faith of a father who can’t bring himself to believe that his eldest son might be dead. He had seen with his own eyes the body that was buried in that grave. Nine year earlier looking for his newly disappeared son Allah Baksh had done the rounds of the mortuaries. “They showed me two bodies,” says Allah Baksh. He had a really good look. “They were both my son’s age. One boy had his throat slit. Another one had his legs cut off just below his knees. I was relieved neither of them was my son.”...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Lahore turns festive as Metro Bus service opens By Khalid Hasnain LAHORE, Feb 10: The Metro Bus System (MBS), arguably the country’s first rapid mass transit bus project, was launched here on Monday. It was inaugurated by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at a ceremony attended by Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and ambassadors of a number of countries...
Zardari was tried as beneficiary, not as accused: Naek By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: The Pakistan People’s Party believes that after the Swiss authorities’ refusal to open a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari there is no case pending against its co-chairman in any court. “There is no case pending against the president in the country,” Law Minister Farooq Naek told Dawn on Sunday...
Monthly fuel-based tariff hike: Govt may seek SC help to get Rs171bn By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: The government has decided to move Supreme Court against the decisions of Peshawar and Islamabad high courts barring recovery from consumers of Rs171 billion on account of monthly fuel-based power tariff increase. A government official told Dawn on Sunday that about Rs67bn arrears had been stuck with consumers on account of fuel-based monthly price adjustment approved by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) after the IHC declared monthly fuel adjustment illegal...
PPP, PML-Q work out seat-sharing formula By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) have worked out a seat adjustment formula for the upcoming elections. Under the formula, each party will name candidates for the seats won by it in the last elections. In a constituency where neither of the parties had emerged victorious, the party that had secured the second highest number of votes will field a candidate...
Abdullah assails Guru’s hanging SRINAGAR, Feb 10: An angry Omar Abdullah, chief minister of Indian-held Kashmir, slammed on Sunday the execution of Mohammed Afzal Guru and said this would reinforce a sense of alienation and injustice among generation of youth in the valley. He also said it was a tragedy that Guru was not allowed to meet his family before he was hanged. The 43-year-old, convicted after a trial fairness of which is being questioned, was hanged and buried in Delhi’s Tihar jail on Saturday...
Man killed in Kashmir protests despite curfew SRINAGAR, Feb 10: One person was killed as protests broke out in at least two parts of Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday despite a strict curfew to prevent violence after the execution of a Kashmiri man convicted in the 2001 attack on India’s parliament. Mohammed Afzal Guru was hanged in New Delhi on Saturday. Ahead of the execution, authorities ordered people in most of the disputed Kashmir region to remain indoors indefinitely in anticipation of anti-India protests...
JKLF holds rally in Muzaffarabad MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 10: The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front held a demonstration here on Sunday to condemn the hanging of Kashmiri activist Mohammed Afzal Guru in a New Delhi prison. The participants of the demonstration held at the press club were holding party flags and placards inscribed with slogans paying tribute to Guru and condemning India for his ‘judicial murder’...
Seven injured in Quetta rocket attacks By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Feb 10: At least seven people, a woman and a child among them, were injured in rocket attacks here on Sunday night. Police sources said the rockets landed in Khudadad road, Pir Abul Khair road and Quaidabad areas with brief intervals...
Dunford takes over as Nato commander in Afghanistan KABUL, Feb 10: US Marine General Joseph Dunford, expected to oversee the withdrawal of most foreign troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year, took control of the Nato-led mission on Sunday, in an elaborate ceremony which emphasised the country’s sovereignty. Gen Dunford takes over from US Marine General John Allen, who ended a 19-month tour which was arguably one of the most difficult periods in the war, now in its eleventh year...
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