DINA for the issue of April 5, 2013

	Friday 5th April 2013 | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 23, 1434
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Minister rules out troops at polling stations By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, April 4: Caretaker Interior Minister Malik Mohammad Habib Khan on Thursday rejected the proposed deployment of army troops at polling stations on the election day...	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 37.56 Points: KARACHI, Apr 04: The KSE-100 index was at 18613.44, up 37.56 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, Apr 04: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.1 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Kayani visits Quetta, urges all parties to take part in election By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, April 4: Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani urged all political forces in Balochistan on Thursday to take part in the elections and pledged to provide safe and secure environment for polls in the restive province. Army will wholeheartedly welcome an all-inclusive election. The COAS emphasised the need for participation by all political parties in the May elections,” a military spokesman said after meetings between Gen Kayani and Balochistan Governor Zulfiqar Magsi and Caretaker Chief Minister Ghous Bakhsh Barozai...
Fake degrees heap ignominy on former lawmakers Dawn Report KARACHI, April 4: It was another tough day for former lawmakers with the courts punishing some of them for having deceived the system by submitting fake academic certificates. Among the dominos to fall were former MNA Jamshed Dasti, former provincial minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Syed Aqil Shah and PPP’s former MNA from Bahawalpur Sardar Aamir Yar Warren...
Jhelum politically paralysed by uncertainty over tickets By Cyril Almeida JHELUM: Ego, ambition, greed and a bit of farce thrown in — the politics of this northern Punjab district, where clan and family affiliations dominate party considerations, has a bit of everything this election season. Farce made an appearance yesterday in the courtroom of Additional District and Sessions Judge Mumtaz Hussain...
Judiciary accused of encroaching on political space. By Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD, April 4: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has accused the judiciary of exercising its power rather than its jurisdiction and encroaching on political space, condemned the killing of minorities and expressed fears about the future of democracy. The HRCP Chairperson, Asma Jahangir, and Secretary General I.A. Rehman spoke about the increasing violation of human rights when they unveiled the commission’s annual report on disturbing events in 2012 at a hotel on Thursday afternoon. It was attended by civil society representatives, lawyers and media personnel...
RO uses Amir’s column to damn him Dawn Report ISLAMABAD/CHINIOT, April 4: Ayaz Amir, a former member of the National Assembly and renowned columnist, became the latest causality on Thursday of articles 62 and 63 of the constitution. The district returning officer of Chakwal rejected his nomination papers, decreeing that he had flouted the ‘ideology of Pakistan’ in one of his columns...
Police, Rangers get another week to open up no-go areas By Tahir Siddiqui KARACHI, April 4: Terming reports submitted by police and Rangers on Karachi’s security situation ‘dissatisfactory’ and ‘eyewash’ for the umpteenth time, the Supreme Court extended on Thursday by another week the deadline it had given to them to eliminate ‘no-go’ areas in the city. A five-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justices Jawwad S. Khawaja, Khilji Arif Hussain, Amir Hani Muslim and Ejaz Afzal Khan, had taken up implementation of the court’s verdict in the law and order case at the Karachi registry of the apex court...
PML-N seeks legal cover for election code By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, April 4: The PML-N urged the interim government on Thursday to provide legal cover to the code of conduct announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for political parties. In a letter to Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Leader of Opposition in the Senate and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Ishaq Dar said that the absence of legal cover to the election code was a major concern for the Senate’s Special Committee on Election Issues which had extensively worked on the code....
Moderate quake hits Pakistan ISLAMABAD, April 4: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook Afghanistan and Pakistan on Thursday, with tremors felt in Kabul and Islamabad, but officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The epicentre was on the Afghan-Tajikistan border at a depth of 225km, senior meteorological official Hazrat Mir said...
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