DINA for the issue of 7th February, 2013

	Thursday 7th February 2013 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 25, 1434
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Imran moves to join Qadri’s anti-ECP front By Mansoor Malik LAHORE, Feb 6: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf and Pakistan Awami Tehrik of Dr Tahirul Qadri have joined hands and called for a powerful Election Commission and an impartial caretaker government to ensure free and fair general elections...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 120.45 Points: KARACHI, Feb 06: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 17408.52, up 120.45 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Feb 06: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.9 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Presidency not to be used for politics, says govt By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh LAHORE, Feb 6: The federal government gave an undertaking to the Lahore High Court on Wednesday that the President House would not be used for political activities in future. In a written reply submitted to a full bench on behalf of the federation, Advocate Wasim Sajjad admitted that the Presidency had been used for political activities, but requested the court to forget the past and look forward...
ECP exempts institutions from ban on recruitment By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Feb 6: The Election Commission of Pakistan has rejected the government’s plea for lifting a ban it had imposed on recruitment in all departments and on diversion of allocated developmental funds. However, it has exempted from the ban constitutional bodies, including the Supreme Court, high courts, parliament and the Federal Ombudsman...
Balochistan govt may be restored with new CM By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Feb 6: Efforts led by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) to get the governor’s rule in Balochistan lifted appear to be getting the required support from the quarters concerned. Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf assured a three-member delegation of JUI-F on Wednesday that the party’s proposal to restore the Balochistan government with a new chief minister would be given a serious consideration...
PML-N assails PTI’s alliance with Qadri By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has criticised Imran Khan’s PTI for supporting Tahirul Qadri’s call for reconstitution of the Election Commission and said it has exposed the forces bent on getting the electoral process delayed. “Imran and Qadri are brothers. The PTI’s demand for reconstitution of the Election Commission has exposed the forces working to get the elections postponed,” PML-N Deputy Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal said at a press conference here on Wednesday...
SC stays transfer of Gurudwara land By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Feb 6: The Supreme Court restrained the Defence Housing Authority, Lahore, on Wednesday from altering in any manner Sikh properties in its possession. On a complaint that the site of a Gurudwara in Lahore had been appropriated for building a commercial plaza, the court ordered a temporary ban on altering Sikh properties...
Shahzeb case: test indicates Shahrukh is not a minor By Imran Ayub KARACHI, Feb 6: A six-member medical board conducted an ossification test on Wednesday of Shahrukh Jatoi, the prime suspect in the Shahzeb Khan murder case, and found initial signs of his adulthood, although he was earlier declared an underage person and sent to a juvenile prison. Doctors from different institutions conducted dental examination and other tests of the suspect at the Sindh Government Services Hospital to determine his age...
‘CIA operates secret drone base in Saudi Arabia’ WASHINGTON, Feb 6: The United States is operating a secret base out of Saudi Arabia and used it to launch a CIA drone strike in 2011 that killed US-born Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al Awlaki, according to a media report. The Washington Post on Wednesday said the base was set up two years ago as part of US officials’ effort to ramp up search for members of the militant group...
Benazir used IB to counter ISI, MI, says ex-chief By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Feb 6: Masood Sharif Khattak, a former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief and now leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf, strongly defended before the Supreme Court on Wednesday former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s decision to increase secret service funds and then withdraw it, between 1988 and 1990, from the accounts of the civilian intelligence outfit. The activation and rejuvenation of the IB became all the more inevitable and raising the secret service funds became necessary because the military-run secret intelligence agencies (ISI and MI) were not reporting to the country’s civilian chief executive as extensively as they did to military dictator late Gen Ziaul Haq, said Mr Khattak in a nine-page statement submitted to the court...
OIC group reaffirms support for Kashmir cause CAIRO, Feb 6: The Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that met here on the sidelines of the 12th Islamic Summit Conference reaffirmed its full support to Kashmir cause. The meeting coinciding with the Kashmir Solidarity Day observed in Pakistan on Tuesday was co-chaired by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu...
Decision to hand over Gwadar port to China worries India NEW DELHI, Feb 6: China’s role in operating a strategically important port in Pakistan is a matter of concern for India, according to its defence minister. Management of Gwadar port, around 600km from Karachi and close to Pakistan’s border with Iran, is being handed over to state-run Chinese Overseas Port Holdings after previously being managed by Singapore’s PSA International...
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