DINA for the issue of 1st February, 2013

	Friday 1st February 2013 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 19, 1434
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Pak-Afghan talks for new trade corridor get boost By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD: Talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan for opening a third trade corridor through Waziristan got a fresh impetus during the visit of Afghan Defence Minister Gen Bismillah Mohammadi when the two countries narrowed their longstanding strategic differences...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 22.17 Points: KARACHI, Jan 31: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 17227.44, up 22.17 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Jan 31: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.2 to the US Dollar in the open market.
SC tells govt to ensure polls on time By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: In a bid to quell the growing unease in the country that democracy may be derailed, the Supreme Court ordered the military and civilian high commands on Thursday to refrain from doing anything that might delay the upcoming general election. ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: In a bid to quell the growing unease in the country that democracy may be derailed, the Supreme Court ordered the military and civilian high commands on Thursday to refrain from doing anything that might delay the upcoming general election...
No future without democracy, says Raja ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said on Thursday that the country’s future was with democracy alone and all political forces must stand united to thwart any attempt to derail it. Addressing a gathering at the inauguration of the Gujar Khan campus of the Virtual University at the Convention Centre, the prime minister said “no-one can blackmail, threaten or coerce us to abandon democracy”...
Nisar rules out talks with govt on caretakers By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly and PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has again ruled out the possibility of any talks with the government on the issue of a caretaker set-up and predicted that the matter will eventually be decided by the Election Commission of Pakistan. “It seems the ECP will have to decide as it is unlikely that the government and the opposition will develop a consensus on the issue,” he told reporters outside the Parliament House on Thursday...
Two clerics, student shot dead in Karachi By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Jan 31: Two teachers and a student of a seminary were gunned down in an attack on their hi-roof van on Sharae Faisal on Thursday. The attack took place on a stretch of the thoroughfare between the Nursery bus stop and the Finance and Trade Centre in front of the Sindhi Muslim Housing Society’s Block-B...
IHC dismisses appeal against Kayani’s extension By Malik Asad ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court dismissed on Thursday an intra-court appeal against service extension given to Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. Petitioner Col (retd) Inamur Rahim later said he would take the matter to the Supreme Court...
Two polio workers killed in Kurram By Our Correspondent PARACHINAR, Jan 31: Two polio workers were killed when their motorbike hit a roadside bomb in Kurram tribal region on Thursday, an administration official said. The two were on their way to Malikhel village to vaccinate children against the crippling disease when their motorcycle hit the bomb, killing them on the spot, the source said...
Zardari approves raise for judges By Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of the prime minister, has approved a 20 per cent increase in the salaries as well as Superior Court Judicial Allowance of the judges of the superior courts with effect from July 1 last year. According to a presidential order, the salary of the chief justice of Pakistan has been increased from Rs448,221 per month to Rs537,865 and that of the judges of the Supreme Court from Rs423,414 to Rs508,097. Their judicial allowance has been increased from Rs196,219 to Rs235,463...
Counter-Terrorism Authority bill moved in National Assembly By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: In a major move to plan and execute the national effort against terrorism and extremism, the government introduced a bill in the National Assembly on Thursday to create a National Counter Terrorism Authority, which could receive both foreign funds and advice. On a day the government-allied Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) walked out of the chamber to protest against growing terrorism in Karachi, the house also received a report of its Standing Committee on Interior recommending adoption of an earlier government bill seeking to strengthen the existing Anti-Terrorism Act’s provisions to check terrorism financing...
Another day of walkouts in Senate By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: The opposition as well as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a member of the ruling coalition, staged separate walkouts from Senate on Thursday to register their protest over the endless incidents of target killings in Karachi and imposition of governor’s rule in Balochistan. Speaking on a point of order soon after completion of the question hour, Haji Ghulam Ali of JUI-F drew attention of the house towards the continued violence in Karachi, saying no-one was safe in the city and the people were being killed on roads in broad daylight...
‘Violation of ceasefire may damage peace efforts’ BY Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: The Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production warned on Thursday that ceasefire violations by India along the Line of Control (LoC) could damage the peace process. “The committee records its apprehension that unabated unilateral violations of LoC by the Indian troops and the following propaganda to malign Pakistan’s armed forces may cause serious damage to the peace process and prospects of better understanding and relations between the two countries so essentially required for the welfare of the common man of the two countries,” the committee said in a resolution unanimously passed at its meeting.
Representatives of federation, Balochistan: Govt decides to appoint two Irsa members By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: The government has decided in principle to appoint a former member of Wapda from Punjab and a former secretary of planning from Balochistan as members of the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) against the posts lying vacant for over two years. A water and power ministry official said a summary for the appointment of two members — one representing federation and the other Balochistan — had been finalised to seek the prime minister’s approval...
FC kills six ‘militants’ QUETTA, Jan 31: The Frontier Corps killed at least six suspected militants and captured five others in a pre-dawn operation in the Mangocher area of Kalat district on Thursday. “The militants belonged to the banned Baloch Liberation Army,” an FC spokesman said, adding that a camp used by three proscribed organisations — BLA, Baloch Republican Army and United Baloch Army — for terrorist activities was also destroyed. “FC personnel conducted the operation after receiving information that the BLA had set up its camp in the Durgzai area where it plans bomb blasts and sabotage activities and attacks on security forces.”...
More pragmatic military ties urged By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Jan 31: The United States and Pakistan should have a more realistic and pragmatic approach to their military-to-military relationship, says US defence secretary nominee Chuck Hagel. In an opening statement at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Senator Hagel also said that the mission of US forces in Afghanistan after 2014 should be restricted to counter-terrorism and training Afghan security forces...
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