DINA for the issue of April 10, 2013

	Wednesday 10th April 2013 | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 28, 1434
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CEC seeks help to ward off anti-poll plots By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner retired Justice Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim has made an appeal to the heads of different political parties to help the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) pre-empt any attempt to subvert the coming elections.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 60.55 Points: KARACHI, Apr 09: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 18713.61, up 60.55 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Apr 09: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.1 to the US Dollar in the open market.
LHC allows SBP to retain official By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday withdrew its stay order and allowed Mohammad Ashraf Wathra to continue working as deputy governor of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) raised no objection to his appointment. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah passed the order while hearing a petition against appointments made by the government after a ban was imposed by the ECP. The petitioner, Munir Ahmed, sought enforcement of articles 62 and 63 of the constitution during scrutiny of the candidates for the coming general elections.
5-day week in Punjab to tackle loadshedding By Intikhab Hanif and Amin Ahmed LAHORE/ISLAMABAD, April 9: The Punjab government decided on Tuesday to observe two weekly holidays and urged the federal government to convene a meeting of the Council of Common Interests to tackle the problem of loadshedding in the province. Meanwhile in Islamabad, the caretaker prime minister ordered the finance ministry to immediately release Rs20 billion to ensure a smooth fuel supply to thermal power plants. Mir Hazar Khan Khoso issued the directive at a meeting held to review working of power generation plants in the country.
SC rejects request for Musharraf arrest By Malik Asad ISLAMABAD, April 9: The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a request made by petitioners in the treason case against former president Pervez Musharraf for his arrest and also exempted him from appearing in person during initial hearings. The court turned down a request by Ahmed Raza Kasuri, counsel for retired Gen Musharraf, for putting off the proceedings till May 20 because of his client’s engagements in election-related matters and directed him to submit a reply by the next date of hearing — April 15.
Ambitious targets in PTI’s election manifesto By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, April 9: With promises to put the country on a fast-track development in 100 days and curb corruption in 90 days, Pakistan Teheek-i-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan unveiled his party’s election manifesto for the general elections here on Tuesday. Spelling out ambitious targets, Imran Khan said if his party was voted to power, it would end electricity loadshedding in two to three years, hold local government elections within three months and impose a range of taxes, including on agriculture.
Haj corruption case: Court seeks explanation for immunity to Gilani By A Reporter ISLAMABAD, April 9: The Supreme Court directed the Ministry of Law and Justice on Tuesday to justify the immunity it had granted to former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the Haj corruption case. During the hearing of case, Federal Investigation Agency’s investigation officer Hussain Asghar informed a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry that probe into the appointments of a key accused, Rao Shakeel Ahmed, as director general Haj and Zain Iftikhar Sukhera as consultant in the Ministry of Information Technology had been stuck because of a letter written by the law ministry on March 1.
Mangal Bagh becomes LI, Taliban supremo in Khyber By Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL: Mangal Bagh has become supreme leader of both the Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for the tribal region of Khyber. “The decision to elevate Mangal Bagh to the status of supreme commander for Khyber was taken at a joint shura of Taliban and LI ‘commanders’,” highly placed government officials said.
Dissenting order by LHC bench: Ittefaq pleas sent to referee judge By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, April 9: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial has referred the petitions filed by the Ittefaq Foundries to a referee judge after a dissenting order was passed by a division bench seized with the matter. Justice Khwaja Imtiaz Ahmad and Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan heard three petitions at the Rawalpindi bench titled “Ittefaq Foundries Limited etc, Hudaibiya Papers etc and Shamim Akhtar etc versus the Federation of Pakistan, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Accountability Court Judge, Rawalpindi”.
SC summons former MQM legislators on 16th ISLAMABAD, April 9: The Supreme Court issued final notices to eight former lawmakers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday, directing them to appear before it on April 16. Hearing dual-nationality cases against former lawmakers, a bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed expressed displeasure over non-appearance of the former parliamentarians, including Haider Abbas Rizvi, Raza Haroon, Abdul Moeed Siddiqui, Askari Taqvi, Arif Aziz and Mian Abdul Rauf, before the court.
Mengal asks EU observers to visit Balochistan By Amanullah Kasi QUETTA: Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the president of his own faction of the Balochistan National Party (BNP-M), has appealed to election observers of the European Union (EU) to review their decision of not visiting Balochistan during their assignment in Pakistan. Talking to journalists here on Tuesday, Mr Mengal said the EU observers had been visiting countries in Africa to observe electoral activities. Some of these countries were more dangerous than Balochistan.
Helicopter crash kills two US troops in Afghanistan KABUL, April 9: A Nato helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday killing two US troops, officials said, adding there was no insurgent activity in the area at the time of the incident. The Afghan Taliban, however, said they had shot down the helicopter.
Europe-wide sham marriage gang busted MADRID, April 9: Police in Spain and three other European nations have broken up a gang that obtained residency permits for undocumented Pakistani men by organising fake marriages with Portuguese women, Spanish police said on Tuesday. The Europe-wide ring’s leader was among 26 people arrested. He was nabbed in February in Barcelona, Spanish police, who carried out the investigation with their counterparts in Portugal, Britain and France, said in a statement.
Egypt satirist faces probe for ‘insulting Pakistan’ CAIRO, April 9: Egyptian prosecutors are probing new complaints against popular satirist Bassem Youssef, this time for “insulting Pakistan” and “spreading atheism,” judicial sources said on Tuesday. The wildly popular Youssef — whose weekly political satire programme Al-Bernameg (The Show) has spared few public figures of merciless critique — is currently on bail pending investigation into charges of insulting President Mohamed Morsi and Islam.
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