DINA for the issue of 12th February, 2013

	Tuesday 12th February 2013 |Rabi-us-Sani 1, 143
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Terror attacks part of conspiracy, says MQM KARACHI, Feb 11: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has termed the increase in target killings and incidents of terrorism in Karachi part of a well-planned conspiracy and called upon the country’s leadership to take effective steps for protecting the life and property of citizens...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 80.41 Points: KARACHI, Feb 11: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 17558.35, up 80.41 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Feb 11: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.9 to the US Dollar in the open market.
SC grills Qadri on his nationality By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri may have made waves with his four-day sit-in last month but he was cut to size when he appeared before the Supreme Court on Monday to plead for reconstitution of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). He waited for hours for his turn and when his case was eventually taken up, the court dropped a bombshell by asking him whether he had sworn allegiance to Queen Elizabeth of United Kingdom...
Katchi Abadis on railway land: Slum dwellers must not be displaced: Zardari By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, Feb 11: President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the railways authorities not to demolish Katchi Abadis on the railways land and to initiate the process of giving ownership rights to dwellers. Talking to Evacuee Trust Property Board Chairman Asif Hashmi at Governor’s House here on Monday, the president expressed concern over the plight of people in slum areas...
Blast in Karachi gas substation injures policeman By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Feb 11: A bomb went off on Korangi Road near Qayyumabad flyover on Monday night, injuring a policeman who happened to be passing by the area. “It was an improvised explosive device weighing 200gm planted at a Sui Gas substation. It appears that the target was the substation,” DIG South Shahid Hayat said, adding that no traces of the device containing ball-bearings had been found...
Commission set up to investigate ghost schools By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The Supreme Court constituted on Monday a commission comprising district and sessions judges to investigate ‘ghost’ schools and ascertain reasons for state’s apathy towards government schools and institutions. A three-judge headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry asked members of the commission to conduct surveys in their areas to ascertain the number of non-functional and ghost schools and their conversion into cattle pen. They are required to submit their reports in a month...
Appointment of KP governor triggers controversy Bureau Report PESHAWAR, Feb 11: The appointment of Shaukatullah Khan as governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has triggered a controversy because he is not ‘a registered voter and resident of the province’ as required under the Constitution. He took oath of office on Sunday. Mr Khan who hails from Bajaur Agency was elected to the National Assembly from NA-43 in the 2008 elections...
Muscat airport closed after PIA plane crash-lands MUSCAT / KARACHI, Feb 11: A Pakistan International Airlines plane crash-landed on the runway of Oman’s main airport on Monday, forcing the cancellation of all flights from the facility. Muscat International Airport’s flight safety director Ali Al Zuwaidi said the pilot had reported no injuries among passengers or the crew...
Rs200bn injected into power sector in 8 months By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The government has injected Rs200 billion into the power sector in less than eight months of the current financial year with the budgetary target for the entire year being Rs120bn. A senior government official told Dawn on Monday that Rs10bn was released by the ministry of finance to the power sector on Feb 4 and Rs5bn on Feb 8. The total injection into the power sector had stood at Rs185bn by the end of January...
US begins pulling out hardware through Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The US has started using the land route through Pakistan to pull American military equipment out of Afghanistan as it draws down its troops in the country, US and Pakistani officials said on Monday. The US moved 50 shipping containers into Pakistan over the weekend, said Marcus Spade, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan. The containers were the first convoys to cross into Pakistan as part of the Afghan pullout, he said...
N-capable missile tested By Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Pakistan on Monday successfully carried out a test-fire of a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile, Hatf IX (Nasr). According to a statement issued by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the test-fire was carried out with the successive launches of two missiles from a state of the art multi-tube launcher...
SC notes interference in Ogra scam probe By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The Supreme Court took notice on Monday of ‘interference’ by Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, through the cabinet division, in investigation into the Rs82 billion scam of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) in which its former chairman Tauqir Sadiq was allegedly involved. The court said the prime minister was one of the accused in the case for illegal appointment of Mr Sadiq and asked how he could order the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to apprise him about the investigation...
Pak-origin man named minister in Canada By Latafat Ali Siddiqui TORONTO, Feb 11: Yasir Naqvi became on Monday Canada’s first minister of Pakistani descent. He was sown in as minister for labour in the Ontario cabinet of Kathleen Wynne who recently succeeded veteran politician Dalton McGuinty. Mr McGuinty resigned last year as Premier (chief minister) and head of Liberal Party in the province...
Balochistan teachers end strike By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Feb 11: Teachers recruited under the Aghaz-i-Huqooq-i-Balochistan Package called off their two-week hunger strike on Monday after district authorities assured them that their contractual jobs would be regularised. Quetta Deputy Commissioner Abdul Mansoor Kakar visited the striking teachers’ camp outside the press club and informed them that their demand had been accepted...
Guru’s family gets letter of hanging By Jawed Naqvi NEW DELHI, Feb 11: Two days after he was hanged in a Delhi jail amid controversial haste and secrecy, Kashmiri fruit vendor Afzal Guru’s family received the official letter in Srinagar on Monday informing them of the sudden decision to execute him. The secrecy with which he was killed denied Guru, convicted for plotting the botched 2001 attack on Indian parliament, a legitimate chance to seek a judicial review of President Pranab Mukherjee’s decision to not grant his prayer for mercy...
FC seizes weapons QUETTA, Feb 11: The Frontier Corps on Monday seized 30 rocket launchers, 12 hand grenades and 2,000 SMG rounds from a vehicle coming from Afghanistan in Gulistan area of Qila Abdullah district, officials said. A man was killed and another injured in a clash. FC sources said the arms were being smuggled to Quetta.—Staff Correspondent...
US commando describes how he killed Osama By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Feb 11: “There was (Osama) Bin Laden standing there. He had his hands on a woman’s shoulders, pushing her ahead, not exactly towards me but by me, in the direction of the hallway commotion,” says the man who killed the Al-Qaeda chief. In this first ever interview to the media, the US Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden shares the details of the operation with the Esquire magazine, telling interviewer Phil Bronstein how the raid had affected his life...
Clashes in Kashmir continue SRINAGAR, Feb 11: Three young people have died in violence in Indian-held Kashmir despite a curfew that continued for a third day on Monday following the execution of Mohammed Afzal Guru for allegedly attacking India’s parliament in 2001. Protests and clashes between troops and demonstrators broke out at a dozen places. Police and paramilitary soldiers lobbed teargas shells and used batons to chase away rock-throwing protesters...
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