DINA for the issue of March 21, 2013

	Thursday 21st March 2013 | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 8, 1434
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ECP prepares schedule: Countrywide polls on May 11 By Iftikhar A Khan and Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, March 20: In what is perceived to be a move to stop rumour mills from casting doubts about general elections, President Asif Ali Zardari announced on Wednesday that the nation would go to the polls on May 11 to elect the National Assembly...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 70.44 Points: KARACHI, Mar 20: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 17763.81, up 70.44 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Mar 20: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.2 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Nisar’s ‘solo flight’ threw spanner in the works By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, March 20: The PPP and the PML-N might have reached an agreement on caretaker prime minister had the leader of opposition in the now dissolved National Assembly not thrown a spanner in the works. Dawn has learnt that by holding a press conference on Tuesday evening Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan took a solo flight and nearly caused a crash...
Process not transparent in Sindh, Balochistan: Nawaz By Amjad Mahmood LAHORE, March 20: PML-N president Nawaz Sharif has alleged that the process of selecting caretaker chief ministers in Sindh and Balochistan lacked transparency and cautioned that his party will accept results of only transparent elections. “We’ll accept elections (results) provided transparency in the election process is visible from day one and this element of transparency is at stake in Sindh and Balochistan,” he told newsmen after a consultative meeting of the party in Raiwind on Wednesday...
Punjab assembly dissolved LAHORE, March 20: Punjab Governor Makhdoom Ahmed Mahmood dissolved the provincial assembly on Wednesday immediately after receiving an advice from Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, removing the last hurdle in holding polls for the national and provincial assemblies on the same day. The advice was issued one day later than March 19 as decided by the four chief ministers at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in Islamabad last week...
Parameters set for selecting interim PM By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, March 20: There were cameras and lights, but when members of the parliamentary committee came out after a nearly three-hour meeting, there was little action to be recorded. The eight-member bipartisan committee constituted to select a caretaker prime minister within three days discussed only its terms of references in its first meeting held here on Wednesday...
Tariq takes oath as interim chief minister of KP By Zulfiqar Ali PESHAWAR, March 20: Retired Justice Tariq Pervez Khan was sworn in as the caretaker chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday. Governor Engineer Shaukatullah Khan administered the oath to the Supreme Court’s former judge who had recently retired as chief justice of the Peshawar High Court (PHC)...
Pakistan wants to see Tapi pipeline built soon: Zardari ASHGABAT, March 20: Pakistan attached great importance to the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) gas pipeline and wanted to see the project built as soon as possible, said President Asif Ali Zardari here on Wednesday. President Zardari was in the Turkmen capital to attend the Nauroz Festival that was also attended by other world leaders...
Contempt of court: SC to indict NAB chief on April 12 By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, March 20: Facing a charge of contempt of court, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman retired Admiral Fasih Bokhari reiterated his stance on Wednesday and said Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was “not favourably disposed towards him”. “The respondent [Adm Bokhari] has reasons to believe that the chief justice is not favourably disposed towards him,” argued Advocate Navid Rasul Mirza while representing the NAB chairman...
5 Pakistanis killed JOHANNESBURG, March 20: South African police say two robbers stealing a safe shot and killed five Pakistani men and wounded a sixth in a ghetto outside the tourist resort of Cape Town. Police spokesman Col Tembinkosi Kinana said the attack took place in a house believed to be used as a bakery on Tuesday night...
Six names proposed for caretaker chief minister in Balochistan By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, March 20: The government and opposition have proposed three names each for the post of caretaker chief minister of Balochistan and started talks on Wednesday evening to agree on a name. They decided to resume discussions on Thursday.Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has proposed the names of former chief justice of Balochistan Amanullah Yasinzai and Jam Kamal, son of former chief minister late Jam Mohammad Yousuf. The Leader of Opposition in the now dissolved provincial assembly, Mir Tariq Magsi, has proposed the names Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Barozai and Sardar Mohammad Saleh Bhootani after consultation with his group and political parties outside the assembly...
‘US, Pakistan share goals in Afghanistan’ By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, March 20: Pakistan shares the US goal of restoring stability to Afghanistan, says an American expert while a former US envoy urges Washington to strengthen its trade and investment ties with Islamabad. But Pakistan’s former ambassador Husain Haqqani has urged the United States to break up ties with his country so that it “can find out whether its regional policy objectives of competing with and containing India are attainable without US support”...
IMF chief’s flat searched in arbitration case PARIS, March 20: French authorities searched the Paris apartment of IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Wednesday in an investigation into her award of a 2008 arbitration payment to a businessman supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, her lawyer said. Ms Lagarde, who was Mr Sarkozy’s finance minister at the time, has denied wrongdoing in ending a court battle with Bernard Tapie and to instead opt for arbitration. It resulted in a $367 million sum being granted to the billionaire...
Bangladesh president dies in Singapore DHAKA, March 20: Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman, a veteran ruling party politician named to the largely ceremonial post in 2009, died on Wednesday in a Singapore hospital, officials said. He was 84. Mr Rahman, who was suffering from kidney and respiratory problems, was flown to Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital by air ambulance on March 10 after his condition worsened...
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