DINA for the issue of 4th February, 2013

	Monday 4th February 2013 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 22, 1434
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Afghans stop 200 Pakistani containers By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Feb 3: The Afghan border authorities have stopped over 200 Pakistani containers carrying food items to Turkmenistan and other Central Asian states under transit trade from entering Afghanistan via Chaman...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Constitutional impasse in Balochistan: JUI-F presents formula to end deadlock By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F, the third largest party in the Balochistan Assembly after the PML-Q and PPP, has offered its unconditional support for the ruling coalition to elect a new chief minister. The JUI-F has urged coalition partners to nominate a new chief minister or let Maulana Fazlur Rehman make a choice to enable Balochistan to move ahead with other provinces in democratic transition...
Opposition plans march and sit-in today By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: Members of several opposition parties, led by PML-N leaders, will march from Parliament House to offices of the nearby Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday (today) “to express solidarity with the ECP and demand its empowerment to ensure free and fair general election”. PML-N information secretary Senator Mushahidullah Khan told Dawn on Sunday those participating in the march would stage a brief sit-in near the ECP building where some leaders would deliver speeches. ..
Raja replaces Wattoo in talks with PML-Q By Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE, Feb 3: Because of PML-Q leaders’ unwillingness to hold talks for seat adjustment with PPP’s Punjab president Manzoor Wattoo, President Asif Ali Zardari has authorised Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to initiate contacts with them. Raja Ashraf is likely to hold first meeting on arrangements for the elections with PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat and Deputy Prime Minister Pervaiz Elahi in Islamabad this week...
Losses caused by two RPPs: NAB report termed ‘deliberately flawed’ By Malik Asad ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: If NAB investigations are to be believed, two of the five Rental Power Projects (RPPs) caused the national exchequer a loss of only Rs51.78 million. However, some NAB officials and other critics reject the figure as ‘peanuts’. According to the National Accountability Bureau, the small amount had sent a legislator of PML-N and another of PML-Q running to the Supreme Court which has since been huffing and puffing over the loss of billions of rupees...
Malala recovering well after skull, ear operations LONDON, Feb 3: Malala Yousufzai is in stable condition after undergoing two successful operations to reconstruct her skull and restore her hearing, the British hospital treating her said on Sunday. Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital said doctors for 15-year-old Malala were “very pleased” with her progress after five hours of skull reconstruction and ear surgery on Saturday...
Conditions set for talks with govt: TTP wants Nawaz, Fazl and Munawar to be guarantors By Zulfiqar Ali PESHAWAR, Feb 3: The banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has expressed its willingness to hold talks with the government, but on two conditions — release of its seven leaders and guarantees by leaders of PML-N, JUI-F and Jamaat-i-Islami to make the exercise fruitful. “The release of Muslim Khan, Maulvi Omar and five other Taliban leaders is a prerequisite for talks, while former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Syed Munawar Hasan should be the guarantors,” TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said in a video message released here on Sunday...
JI declines to oblige By Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: While the Jamaat-i-Islami has declined to become one of the guarantors to ensure that any talks between the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and the government would be ‘fruitful’ as demanded by a TTP spokesman, the Pakistan Muslim League-N and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F have said it will be “inappropriate” to make a comment at this stage. “How can we become a guarantor (in the talks) when the government is not ready to implement even the resolutions of parliament,” JI’s Deputy Secretary General Farid Ahmed Piracha said when contacted...
Sindh’s water needs for Kharif sowing to be met By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: Amid reopening of canals after a month-long closure, water shortage for the ongoing Rabi season has dropped from 17 to 13 per cent owing to better river flows and improved water management by provincial governments. As a result, the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has decided for the first time to carry over reasonable water storages in reservoirs to meet Sindh’s early sowing requirements for Kharif, especially for the main cash crop – cotton...
Jam Yousuf laid to rest By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, Feb 3: The federal minister for privatisation and former chief minister of Balochistan, Jam Mohammad Yousuf, was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Bela area of Lasbela district on Sunday. Mr Yousuf suffered a heart attack on Saturday night at his home in Islamabad and died on way to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences...
POL products being smuggled from Iran By Parvaiz Ishfaq Rana KARACHI, Feb 3: A huge quantity of POL products is being smuggled from Iran through specially designed boats fitted with a mechanical discharge system, official sources said on Sunday. Iranian vessels empty out POL products into these boats and the entire process of loading and unloading takes place within the territorial waters of Pakistan near its coastline...
Bomb defused QUETTA, Feb 3: A major disaster was averted on Sunday when an improvised bomb rigged to a bicycle was defused here on Sariab road, sources said. A Frontier Corps contingent patrolling the area spotted the bicycle parked in front of a hotel and informed the police.
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