DINA for the issue of March 22, 2013

	Friday 22nd March 2013 | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 9, 1434
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ECP to pick PM if no decision today By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, March 21: The eight-member special parliamentary committee held another marathon session on Thursday and discussed merits and demerits of four nominees for the post of caretaker prime minister...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 159.24 Points: KARACHI, Mar 21: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 17913.21, up 159.24 points Forex Update : KARACHI, Mar 21: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.3 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Accord on Barozai for Balochistan CM post By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, March 21: Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani and Leader of Opposition in the now dissolved Balochistan Assembly Tariq Magsi nominated on Thursday Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Barozai as the caretaker chief minister of the province. A government team and representatives of the opposition parties reached unanimity on the name of Nawab Barozai after two hours of discussion on six names earlier proposed by them...
Govt’s letter to speaker affected talks By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Wrangling persisted between the PPP and the PML-N in meetings of the parliamentary committee for selecting the caretaker prime minister after the former submitted a letter to National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, raising objections on all four members representing the opposition in the eight-member bipartisan committee. According to sources, an unfriendly atmosphere prevailed in the committee’s first meeting on Wednesday when both sides accused each other of partiality. Before beginning of the proceedings of the committee, the government side took a step ahead and submitted the letter to the office of the speaker...
Car bomb kills 17 in Jalozai camp By Suhail Kakahel NOWSHERA, March 21: Seventeen people, among them three women, died and 28 others were injured on Thursday when a car bomb tore through a camp set up for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Jalozai. According to police, the blast took place near a food distribution point of the World Food Programme...
Zardari urges use of Gwadar port for trade ASHGABAT, March 21: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday called for greater regional cooperation in areas of counter-terrorism and energy and urged the Central Asian Republics to use Gwadar port for trade. Speaking at the opening session of the International Conference on Nauroz here at the Rukhyat Palace, the president said the region was of great geostrategic importance and underlined the need for robust road and rail links to enable its countries to fully exploit their natural resources...
— calls for summit with Iran, Afghanistan ASHGABAT: President Asif Zardari said on Thursday that Pakistan and Iran had similar objectives and they should work jointly to confront their common challenges. During a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here, he said a meeting of Pakistani, Iranian and Afghan leaders should be held soon...
Afghan spy chief secretly visited Pakistan By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, March 21: In an apparent indication of Pakistan and Afghanistan narrowing their strategic differences, the acting head of the Afghan intelligence service, Hassamuddin Hassam, secretly visited Pakistan in December. His visit took place after a suicide attack on the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief Assadullah Khalid...
Sanjay Dutt sentenced to five years in prison:Indian SC implicates Pakistan in ’93 blasts By Our Correspondent NEW DELHI, March 21: India’s Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced popular film actor Sanjay Dutt to a five-year prison term and awarded death to a fugitive underworld operative in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, saying the crime was carried out by men trained in Pakistan. Besides commuting the death sentence of 10 other convicts, the court awarded life term to 22 others accused in the case under various provisions of a now defunct anti-terror law, Arms Act, Explosive Substances Act and Explosive Act, while sentencing still others to varying jail terms ranging from one year to 10 years...
FO rejects ruling By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, March 21: The Foreign Office (FO) called on Thursday for uninterrupted dialogue with India on regional peace and rejected the Indian Supreme Court’s judgment implicating Pakistani secret services in the 1993 Mumbai bombings. While reacting to Indian court’s verdict in the case, FO spokesman Aizaz Chaudhry “categorically rejected any insinuations pointing to the involvement of Pakistan or any of its agencies in any such activity”...
BSF man killed in Kashmir ambush SRINAGAR, March 21: Militants shot dead an Indian paramilitary man and wounded two others when they ambushed their patrol vehicle in India-held Kashmir’s main city on Thursday, police said. “One of the three BSF [Border Security Force] soldiers injured in the incident died,” Abdul Gani Mir, held Kashmir’s inspector general of police, said...
Justice Jillani urges lawyers to be sensitive towards intolerance By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, March 21: Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani of the Supreme Court has urged the legal community to be sensitive towards growing incidence in the society of violence and intolerance in the name of faith. “The killing of non-Muslim by Muslim in the name of religion or any violence in the name of faith is against the teachings of Holy Quran and Sunnah,” Justice Jillani observed while speaking at the roll signing ceremony of advocates of the Supreme Court here on Thursday...
Official appointed by president stopped from taking charge By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, March 21: A tussle between the government and the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) over pre-poll spending took a new turn on Thursday when the latter stopped the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), appointed by the president, from taking charge as custodian of national treasury. Background discussions with key players suggest that while AGP Akhtar Buland Rana initially took a moral stance against the government’s 100 sanction orders of Rs5 billion for the People’s Works Programme (PWP) issued on the last few days of its term, bureaucrats at the Ministry of Finance checkmated Mr Rana over his inability to ensure merit and transparency in postings and transfers as well as foreign visits...
US to shift control of drone programme to army By Our Correspondent NEW YORK, March 21: Responding to stinging criticism worldwide, the White House is working to shift control of the Central Intelligence Agency’s lethal drone programme to the military, The Wall Street Journal said on Thursday citing US officials. The move on the drone programme that redefines the widely contested campaign that targets suspected terrorists in countries like Pakistan and Yemen was corroborated by the US officials...
Obama in direct peace appeal to Israeli people JERUSALEM, March 21: US President Barack Obama appealed directly on Thursday to the Israeli people to put themselves in the shoes of stateless Palestinians and recognise that Jewish settlement activity in occupied territory hurt prospects for peace. In a showcase speech in Jerusalem to Israeli university students, Mr Obama coupled his plea with an acknowledgement of the Jewish state’s security concerns in a region destabilised by the West’s standoff with Iran and civil war in Syria. ..
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