DINA for the issue of March 19, 2013

	Tuesday 19th March 2013 | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 6, 1434
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Pakistan, Egypt to strengthen relations By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, March 18: President Asif Ali Zardari and his Egyptian counterpart Dr Mohamed Morsi agreed on Monday to take bilateral relations “to a higher trajectory” by enhancing political contacts. The two countries will hold biennial summits to intensify political interaction...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 172.83 Points: KARACHI, Mar 18: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 17,492.00, down 172.83 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Mar 18: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Discord over opposition leader continues: Balochistan assembly dissolved by governor By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, March 18: Though Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi dissolved the provincial assembly on Monday, the JUI-F/BNP-A and their rival group, comprising members of other parties represented in the house, remained entangled in a tug of war over the choice for Leader of Opposition in the assembly. As a result, no move has yet been made over the selection of a caretaker chief minister of the province...
Principal shot dead in Karachi By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, March 18: In what police suspected as a sectarian attack, principal of a college and a campaigner of sectarian harmony Prof Sibt-e-Jafar Zaidi was gunned down on Monday. The killing came as a shock to the Shia community, his students and educationists. The association of professors and lecturers condemned the incident and decided to boycott academic activities across the province in protest against the murder...
Caretaker prime minister: Main parties fail to end deadlock By Syed Irfan Raza and Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, March 18: Just one day before the process for selection of a caretaker prime minister goes to a parliamentary committee, the PML-N has finalised four names from the opposition side for the eight-member bipartisan panel. “We will send the names to National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza after Monday midnight or Tuesday,” PML-N spokesman Senator Mushahidullah told Dawn on Monday...
SC rejects Malik’s apology By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, March 18: The Supreme Court rejected an apology tendered by former interior minister Rehman Malik on Monday and decided to indict him for contempt of court for meddling in the investigation of Pakistan Steel Mills corruption case. Mr Malik appeared before a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry but could not convince the court and tendered an unconditional apology. The chief justice rejected his apology and said: “Let the matter be fixed by the registrar office within seven days before the court to frame the charges against Rehman Malik and the attorney general, Pakistan, to act as prosecutor in the case.”...
Four die in suicide attack at Peshawar court By Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR, March 18: A policeman and three civilians were killed and 49 people, including a woman additional district and sessions judge, were injured in a suicide attack in a judicial complex here on Monday. “Two suicide bombers entered the complex and one of them blew himself up in the courtroom of Additional District and Sessions Judge Kalsoom Zaman while the second was gunned down by police,” Capital City Police Officer Imtiaz Altaf told newsmen...
1965 war hero M.M. Alam passes away By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, March 18: Air Commodore (retd) Muhammad Mahmood Alam Khan, a veteran of the 1965 and 1971 wars, died in a hospital here on Monday after a long illness. He was 78. Funeral prayer was offered at the Masroor Base and attended, among others, by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad, PAF chief Air Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, Corps Commander Lt Gen Ejaz Chaudhry and senior officials of the Air Force, Navy and Army. He was laid to rest with military honours at in PAF graveyard in Masroor Air Base...
President’s activities misreported, LHC told By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh LAHORE, March 18: The federal government accused media organisations on Monday of misreporting activities of President Asif Ali Zardari and ignoring clarifications issued by the presidency. Additional Attorney General Abdul Hayee Gillani produced before a five-judge full bench of the Lahore High Court text of the clarifications issued by the presidency in response to news items about ‘political’ activities of the president during his recent visit to Lahore...
Democratic process moving ahead: US By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, March 18: The US State Department said on Monday that while it did not have a crystal ball to predict if there would never be another military takeover in Pakistan, the country was moving forward with democracy in a very positive manner. State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland also observed that Pakistan was now in the process of forming a transitional government for holding the next elections...
Apex court orders police to protect Christians By Malik Asad ISLAMABAD, March 18: In view of the sense of insecurity expressed by people affected by the arson attack on Lahore’s Joseph Colony, the Supreme Court directed the Punjab police on Monday to provide protection to the life and property of the community. The SC bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, resumed hearing of a case on the incident in which about 180 houses of the Christians had been set on fire...
Notification withdrawn By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, March 18: The ministry of law withdrew on Monday a controversial notification about formation of an inquiry commission for protecting the National Accountability Bureau from ‘interference’ by ‘outside institutions’. “The notification was issued by mistake and the law ministry has ordered its immediate withdrawal,” a spokesman for the ministry said...
Taliban suspend talks offer By Sailab Mahsud LADHA, March 18: The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced on Monday that it was temporarily suspending its offer for talks because of the government’s ‘non-serious’ attitude. It asked people to stay away from elections which, it said, was only serving the interests of infidels and enemies of Islam. In a video released to the media, TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said the militant outfit was withdrawing its offer of peace talks with the government...
Karachi’s 11 constituencies may be altered By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, March 18: A committee constituted by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has suggested changes in the boundaries of three Karachi constituencies of the National Assembly and eight of Sindh Assembly before announcement of the election schedule. The committee headed by Sindh ECP Member Justice (retd) Mohammad Roshan Essani, said in its report that fresh delimitation would be contrary to judicial principles without first declaring the final lists of constituencies published by the ECP in 2002 and re-described in 2007 and 2013 as illegal...
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