DINA for the issue of March 27, 2013

	Wednesday 27th March 2013 | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 14, 1434
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Punjab settles on Sethi as caretaker By Amjad Mahmood LAHORE, March 26: Well-known journalist Najam Sethi was selected as caretaker chief minister of Punjab on Tuesday after marathon deliberations by the treasury and opposition members in the outgoing provincial assembly...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 81.39 Points: KARACHI, Mar 26: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 17880.52, down 81.39 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Mar 26: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.4 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Report on KP, Fata: ISI and MI fear spike in terrorism By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, March 26: The country’s premier intelligence agencies fear increased terrorist activities in the border agencies of Mohmand and Bajaur and Dir, Swat and Chitral because of a recent nexus between the Tehreek-i-Taliban Swat (TTS) and the Afghan government. A report on military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) submitted to the Supreme Court on Tuesday by Advocate Raja Mohammad Irshad on behalf of Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence suggested that after having been dislodged from the area, the TTS had resorted to IED (improvised explosive devices) attacks on law enforcement personnel and volunteers of Aman Lashkar...
PPP says Bilawal to return soon By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, March 26: Tuesday’s unexplained departure of PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to Dubai left the party leadership rudderless as it struggled to counter media reports about his differences with his father, President Asif Ali Zardari, over the way party affairs were being managed. Though the party leadership immediately denied reports of the rift in the family, it failed to satisfy the sceptical media when asked why Bilawal had left the country at this crucial juncture when all the political parties were launching their election campaigns and finalising candidates for the May 11 polls...
Party team conveys apprehensions to CEC: Mengal says his party will take part in elections By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI, March 26: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) has decided to participate in the general elections. This was announced by BNP-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal at a press conference here on Tuesday after a 10-hour marathon meeting of his party’s central committee...
Campaigning in the shadow of the Taliban By Cyril Almeida DERA ISMAIL KHAN: As spring transforms the fertile plains of this gateway to Fata and election fever begins to pick up, the districts of D.I. Khan and Tank and the tribal area of South Waziristan are also caught in a vortex of fear and uncertainty. While the threat of militant violence in the upcoming campaign season hangs over all of Fata and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and many other parts of the country, elections in few other areas promise to be as complicated as here, where the southern tip of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa meets the tribal areas...
Nomination papers filed by candidates: ECP told to help voters get information By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, March 26: The Supreme Court ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday to adopt a simple procedure to enable people to get copies of nomination papers filed by candidates after paying a fixed charge so that voters may raise valid objections, if any, to the candidature, credentials or antecedents of contestants. “Under Section 14 of the Representatives of Peoples Act 1976, an elector has the right to raise objections to the nominations of the candidate,” said an order dictated by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry who heads a three-judge bench hearing implementation of its 2010 order in the fake degrees case. “The public representatives need to be like an open book …,” the chief justice observed...
India asked to change design of Kishanganga project By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, March 26: Pakistan has pressed the visiting Indian Indus commissioner to change the design of the Kishanganga Hydro Plant in accordance with a partial award issued by the International Court of Arbitration. A 10-member Indian delegation which left for home on Tuesday said they had referred the award to their seniors and were waiting for their response. They will be able to make changes after the higher authorities agree...
Woman schoolteacher shot dead in Jamrud By Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL, March 26: A woman teacher was shot dead in Jamrud subdivision of Khyber Agency on Tuesday, officials said. Two assailants on a motorbike opened fire at Shehnaz Nazli at close range when she was about to enter a community girls school in Shah Kas area at around 9am...
Ambassador urges strengthening of democracy: US has no favourites in Pakistan polls By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, March 26: The United States has no desired outcome from the May 11 elections in Pakistan, says US Ambassador Richard Olson, while stressing the need for strengthening democracy in the friendly nation. In a discussion on US-Pakistan relations at a Washington think-tank, Mr Olson also observed that there has been a strategic shift in Pakistan’s policies towards India and Afghanistan. Islamabad was now “on the cusp of” granting the most favoured nation status to its eastern neighbour, he said...
Kayani assures Khoso of military’s help during polls By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, March 26: The army chief briefed the caretaker prime minister on Tuesday on the security situation in the country and assured him of the military’s support in holding elections. “Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani called on Prime Minister Justice (retired) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso at the Prime Minister House this morning,” a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office said...
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