DINA for the issue of July 10, 2013

	Wednesday July 10, 2013 | Shaba"an 30, 1434
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Osama raid a wake-up call: report By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, July 9: The Abbottabad Commission has called for strengthening democratic control of state institutions and civilian oversight over so far unaccountable security and intelligence agencies if a national embarrassment like the one caused by the US raid of May 2, 2011, is to be avoided.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Up 355.50 Points: KARACHI, July 09: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 22721.22, up 355.50 point. Forex Update : KARACHI, July 09: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 101.5 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Generals review security ISLAMABAD, July 9: A meeting of the army’s top brass at the General Headquarters on Tuesday, a day after the media published the classified Abbottabad Commission report, had that déjà vu feel to it. The May 2, 2011 US raid at Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s hideout near a premier military training institute in Abbottabad had dented the military’s pride. But when the generals gathered at a corps commanders meeting five weeks after the incident, they lashed out at their critics and accused them of trying to deliberately run down the army because of their perpetual bias against it.
514 detained in five internment centres By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD, July 9: The Supreme Court was informed on Tuesday that 514 people were under detention in five internment centres set up in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under the Action in Aid of Civil Power Regulations 2011 which allows the civil government to confine persons accused of terrorism. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja which had taken up cases of missing persons ordered the attorney general’s office to inform it on Wednesday about details and the status of pending cases of disappeared persons provided by Amina Masood Janjua, a campaigner for missing persons’ cause, and the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances.
Sadiq remanded in NAB custody By Malik Asad ISLAMABAD, July 9: An accountability court handed over on Tuesday Tauqeer Sadiq, former chairman of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) and the main accused in a Rs82 billion scam, to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on 14-day physical remand. He had escaped from the country in December last year while the case was pending in the accountability court and the Supreme Court had also initiated suo motu proceedings.
Ramazan moon not sighted By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, July 9: The Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee announced on Tuesday that the Ramazan moon was not sighted anywhere in the country and, therefore, Thursday would be the first day of the fasting month. It is significant that after years of controversy over moon sighting between the Ruet-i-Hilal Committee and Peshawar’s Qasim Khan mosque led by Mufti Popalzai that similar decisions have been taken by both. Ruet-i-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman said that members of the committee belonging to all schools of thought had not received any testimony to the sighting of the moon from any part of the country. Zonal committees in the four provinces also received no evidence or claim about the sighting.
KESC was given Rs70bn undue bailout by Gilani govt: officials By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, July 9: A summary for providing financial relaxation and amendments in agreements with the Karachi Electric Supply Company was presented to the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet in 2009 in violation of rules and then prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani presided over the ECC meeting — an unusual practice. This was revealed by senior officials of the cabinet division during a meeting of the sub-committee of the senate’s standing committee on water and power. The meeting was presided over by Shahi Syed of the ANP.
Ban calls for ensuring global access to education By Masood Haider UNITED NATIONS, July 9: Ahead of education activist Malala Yousufzai’s visit to the United Nations headquarters on Friday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has highlighted the importance of ensuring global access to quality education, and said that no girl or boy should face unsafe circumstances when exercising this basic right. “On 12 July, Malala will be joined by hundreds of students from more than 80 countries in a unique Youth Assembly where diplomats will take a back seat as young people take over the UN,” Mr Ban said in an article for the Huffington Post.
EU envoys asked to urge IMF to raise loan amount By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, July 9: Pakistan urged the heads of 16 European diplomatic missions on Tuesday to use their influence to persuade the board of directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to extend a $7.3 billion loan programme instead of $5.3bn offered by it. At a meeting with a delegation of the heads of missions of 16 EU members, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar also sought their support for arranging finances for the Diamer-Bhasha dam which was top priority project.
Taliban say Qatar office temporarily closed KABUL, July 9: The Taliban have temporarily closed their office in Qatar, where it was hoped peace talks would begin with the US and Afghanistan, an insurgent official said on Tuesday, blaming “broken promises” for the move. The office opened on June 18 as the first move towards a possible peace deal after 12 years of fighting, but it enraged Afghan President Hamid Karzai by styling itself as an unofficial embassy for a government-in-exile.
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