DINA for the issue of May 08, 2013

	Wednesday 8th May 2013 | Jumadi-us-Sani 27, 1434
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PTI chief said to be in high spirits, urges supporters to keep fighting for change: Imran injured in fall at Lahore rally By Mansoor Malik, Asif Chaudhry and Faisal Ali LAHORE, May 7: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan suffered head and back injuries when he fell from a forklift that was carrying him up on the dais to address a public meeting in Gulberg’s Ghalib Market — the first of eight public meetings he had scheduled in Lahore.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 6.04 Points: KARACHI, May 07: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 19262.74, up 6.04 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, May 07: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.8 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Kayani wants implementation of plan for poll security By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, May 7: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has stressed the need for implementing an integrated and well-coordinated security plan to ensure peaceful elections across the country. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Asim Salim Bajwa, he said this during a detailed briefing on security plan for the general elections at a meeting held here on Tuesday after his arrival in the morning from Quetta.
At least 14 killed, 52 injured in 3 attacks in KP Dawn Report PESHAWAR, May 7: Fourteen people were killed and 52 injured in three terrorist attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday as violence aimed at subverting electioneering continued. Eight people were killed and 33 injured in a suicide attack on a rally of a Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl candidate in Hangu near Kohat.
PML-N suspends campaign for a day Dawn Report LAHORE/RAWALPINDI, May 7: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif announced on Tuesday that his party had put off its poll campaign for a day after Imran Khan, the chief of his main rival party, was injured after falling off a forklift during an election rally in Lahore. “I will not hold election campaign tomorrow to express solidarity with injured Imran Khan. We are kind-hearted and humane people and always care even for our enemies,” Mr Sharif told an election rally in Liaquat Bagh, where PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun-bomb attack on Dec 27, 2007.
Asfandyar — running campaign from Islamabad By Ismail Khan A MAN who would love to walk in the fields, break bread with his party workers and take gur-wali chai with Bahadar mama, while canvassing for votes in his native constituency in Charsadda district during the 2008 elections campaign, is now confined to a house in Islamabad, few people outside his trusted few know. In his own words, it is like he is sitting in a telephone exchange, working the phones, picking up and answering cellphones to speak to party leaders, give them directions and mobilise his own election campaign.
Nawaz for Kargil probe if elected By Our Correspondent NEW DELHI, May 7: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said if elected to lead Pakistan again he would set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the Kargil military adventure by former army chief Gen Pervez Musharraf. In an interview broadcast on Tuesday, Mr Sharif told CNN-IBN’s Karan Thapar that he wanted to take relations with India to the high trajectory of February 1999 when he signed the Lahore accord with then Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
Many in Pakistan now view Taliban as threat: survey WASHINGTON, May 7: The vast majority of Pakistanis are unhappy with their country’s direction and a growing number see the Pakistani Taliban as a threat, according to a survey released on Tuesday. The poll by the Pew Research Centre found that 91 per cent of Pakistanis were dissatisfied with the direction of the country and that a mere 14 per cent saw President Asif Ali Zardari favourably. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, seen as a front-runner in Saturday’s election, was viewed favourably by 66 per cent of Pakistanis and 60 per cent held positive views of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.
Border firing: Afghan diplomat summoned ISLAMABAD, May 7: Pakistan summoned the most senior Afghan diplomat in the country on Tuesday to protest over border skirmishes that it said left five security personnel wounded and strained bilateral relations. Exchanges of fire and ensuing protests are threatening to worsen already fractious ties between Kabul and Islamabad, despite renewed efforts last month by US Secretary of State John Kerry to get them to work more closely on peace efforts.
Two MQM workers killed in Karachi By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, May 7: Two Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers were gunned down in an attack on the party’s office in Korangi on Tuesday night, police said. Armed motorcyclists rode up to the MQM’s unit office in Juma Himayati Goth and opened fire on the people there.
Sanaullah in deep coma AMRITSAR, May 7: Relatives of a Pakistani prisoner savagely attacked in a prison travelled to India on Tuesday to visit the inmate who remained critically ill and in a ‘deep coma’. Sanaullah Ranjay suffered massive head injuries in a jail in the northern city of Jammu in an apparent tit-for-tat attack after an Indian prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, was fatally assaulted in Pakistan.
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