DINA for the issue of March 30, 2013

	Saturday 30th March 2013 | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 17, 1434
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Combating terrorists, outlaws: Karachi police demoralised, admit officials By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, March 29: Bosses of Karachi police admitted in the Supreme Court on Friday that their men lacked the ‘will’ to combat the growing number of militants and gangsters in the city because of sluggish follow-up of the cases of their colleagues who had been killed by criminals...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 98.65 Points: KARACHI, Mar 29: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 18046.41, up 98.65 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Mar 29: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.2 to the US Dollar in the open market.
LHC disposes of contempt plea against Zardari By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, March 29: The Lahore High Court disposed of on Friday a contempt of court petition filed against President Asif Ali Zardari for not complying with the court’s 2011 judgment which required him to quit dual office and avoid political activities. The federation’s counsel Wasim Sajjad informed a five-judge full bench headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial that President Zardari had quit the office of PPP co-chairperson and also shunned political activities in the presidency. He said the steps taken by the president showed his compliance with the LHC judgment and requested the bench to discharge the proceedings...
FC commandant survives attack: 12 die in Peshawar suicide blast By Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR, March 29: Twelve people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked the vehicle of Commandant of Frontier Constabulary in the province Abdul Majeed Marwat in the high-security cantonment area here on Friday. Two women and two security personnel were among the dead and about 25 people were injured. According to an official, the bomber blew himself up when the FC commandant was going from his residence on Khyber Road to FC Headquarters on Shershah Suri Road...
Caretaker CMs meet Khoso, vow fair elections By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, March 29: The caretaker chief ministers of the provinces, during a meeting with Prime Minister retired Justice Mir Hazar Khan Khoso here on Friday, pledged to hold free and fair elections. Sources in the Prime Minister House told Dawn that Justice Khoso had held the meeting to hear the chief ministers’ opinion on security-related issues in the provinces and how the federal government could help them in this regard...
Overseas Pakistanis’ vote: ECP, Nadra for caution By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, March 29: Senior officials of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) believe that a decision in haste on the evolution of a mechanism that would enable overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes in the coming general elections would open a room for manipulation of results in many constituencies. Talking to Dawn, the officials said they were ready to implement orders of the Supreme Court, but admitted that they were facing serious problems in finding ways to make the process transparent...
British women of Pakistani origin gang-raped in Libya TRIPOLI, March 29: At least two British activists with a humanitarian convoy destined for the Gaza Strip were subjected to a brutal gang-rape by five men in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, the Libyan deputy prime minister said. The two women of Pakistani origin were brutally raped in front of their father, Awadh al-Barassi said on his Facebook page, condemning “a horrible act”...
High Court bars Musharraf from leaving country By Tahir Siddiqui KARACHI, March 29: Retired Gen Pervez Musharraf was barred on Friday from leaving the country without the trial court’s permission by the Sindh High Court where the former military ruler had the second close call with a shoe over the past two years. However, the two division benches which had earlier given the 69-year-old former president pre-arrival protective bail for 10 and 15 days accepted his request for further extension of bail in three cases — two pertaining to the killing of Akbar Bugti and Benazir Bhutto and the third regarding the confinement of judges — as the SHC corridors echoed with pro- and anti-Musharraf slogans in a highly charged atmosphere...
UN unable to adopt arms trade treaty By Masood Haider UNITED NATIONS, March 29: Iran, North Korea and Syria on Thursday blocked adoption of a UN treaty that would regulate the multi-billion-dollar international arms trade which required agreement by all 193 UN member states. The three countries charged that the treaty was flawed and failed to ban weapons sales to rebel groups...
Talal Bugti sets conditions for contesting elections By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, March 29: Nawabzada Talal Bugti, son of Baloch leader Nawab Mohammad Akbar Khan Bugti and president of his own faction of Jamhoori Watan Party, announced here on Friday that he would take part in general elections under certain conditions. During a meeting with Mr Ishtiak Ahmed, the Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan, and other senior ECP officials here on Friday, he demanded that the commission should address concerns of his party regarding security situation, role of law-enforcement agencies and matters pertaining to Dera Bugti district. Otherwise, he said, his party might boycott the elections...
US activists launch month-long protests against drones By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, March 29: Peace activists in the United States are starting a month of protests this week to mobilise American public opinion against drone strikes, the organisers say. Also this week, a data firm in Berkley, California, released new interactive visuals, which track every drone strike the United States has carried out in Pakistan since 2004...
Terrorism is the only worry, says Sethi By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, March 29: “Terrorism is my only worry which can disturb smooth run-up to the general elections,” Punjab’s caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi said on Friday, adding that otherwise things were very much under control. “In the complete absence of counter-terrorism force, my only worry at the moment is how to protect politicians and their election rallies from terrorists who have already threatened to strike with full force. The very thought gives me sleepless nights,” said Mr Sethi while talking to media personnel at the Punjab House...
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