DINA for the issue of July 31, 2013

	Wednesday July 31, 2013 | Ramazan 21, 1434
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Mamnoon elected with ease, but with a blemish By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, July 30: The nominee of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N, Mamnoon Hussain, won the presidential election on Tuesday with ease, but with a blemish due to a boycott led by the largest opposition party that may rankle during his five-year term beginning in September.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 30.34 Points: KARACHI, July 30: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 23284.81, down 30.34 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, July 30: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 102.95 to the US Dollar in the open market.
248 inmates escape after jail attack By Irfan Mughal DERA ISMAIL KHAN, July 30: Twelve people, including five policemen, were killed and 13 others injured after over one hundred heavily armed militants stormed the central jail here on Monday night, leading to the escape of 248 prisoners. Authorities clamped a curfew in Dera Ismail Khan and plugged exit points leading to the tribal region to look for suspects and escaping prisoners. But police said that the search yielded just a handful of prisoners and no arrests were made.
Zardari, Nawaz felicitate president-elect By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Notwithstanding PPP’s boycott of the presidential election, President Asif Ali Zardari, who is co-chairman of the party, felicitated Mamnoon Hussain on Tuesday on his election as the 12th president of the country. “In his message of felicitation President Zardari wished the president-elect well in the discharge of his responsibilities as head of the federation,” president’s spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar said.
JUI-F may get two ministries By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, July 30: The JUI-F’s strategy to delay till last minute its decision to support PML-N’s nominee Mamnoon Hussain in the presidential election is going to pay it with two posts in the federal cabinet, Dawn has learnt. Although the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F officially denies having any “underhand deal” with the ruling PML-N, sources in the two parties said the PML-N had agreed to offer two ministries to the religious party as a reward for its support. Talking to reporters outside the Parliament House, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman claimed that his party had extended “unconditional support” to Mr Hussain and the issue of cabinet positions had not been discussed. But later in a statement issued in the evening, he said: “The party will submit the names for the cabinet at an appropriate time.”
CEC tried to set aside apex court order By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, July 30: Chief Election Commissioner retired Justice Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim was displeased by the Supreme Court’s decision to change the presidential poll schedule and went to the extent of making an abortive attempt to set aside the verdict on the day he scrutinised the candidates’ nomination papers. According to an official of the commission, the CEC had written a note declaring the court’s decision an attack on the independence of the ECP. He wanted his fellow members to endorse the note and decide that the election would be held in accordance with the original schedule announced by the commission.
CCI to discuss new draft of power policy By Sohail Iqbal Bhatti ISLAMABAD, July 30: At a meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) to be held on Wednesday the government will present an amended draft of its energy policy, now renamed as the National Power Policy, 2013. It proposes to offer uninterrupted, albeit expensive, supply of electricity. The policy first moved at a CCI meeting on July 23 and referred to an inter-provincial committee. The new draft, a copy of which is available with DawnNews, has a number of new proposals that were not in the earlier draft. The policy recommends a raise in power tariff ranging from Rs3 to 7 per unit for different categories of consumers.
17 burnt alive after coach-truck collision By Nasir Iqbal Khattak KARAK, July 30: At least 17 passengers were burnt alive when a coach caught fire after colliding with a truck on the Indus Highway here on Tuesday. According to witnesses, gas cylinder of the coach going to Peshawar from Dera Ismail Khan exploded after the collision near Amberi Kalla Chowk. The truck was loaded with mangoes.
Jailbreak: it wasn’t an intelligence failure for once By Ismail Khan IF it was for intelligence information, Dera Ismail Khan’s Central Prison debacle should not have happened. On July 27, a letter marked “secret” and “most immediate” by the country’s intelligence agency addressed to the commissioner, deputy commissioner, deputy inspector general of police, district police officer and the superintendent of Dera Ismail Khan central jail, stated: “It has been reliably learnt that miscreants namely Umer Khitab and his associates affiliated with Gandapur Group/TTP are planning to carry out terrorist attack against Central Jail – Dera Ismail Khan on the pattern similar to Bannu jailbreak in near future. According to information, miscreants are in possession of sketch/map of Jail and have reached in the vicinity of Dera Ismail Khan for this purpose.”
LHCBA demands reference against three judges By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, July 30: A general house meeting of the Lahore High Court Bar Association adopted a resolution on Tuesday demanding presidential references against Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawad S. Khwaja and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed for their alleged violation of the constitution in their judgment on the election of the president. Advocate Rashid Lodhi, an activist of PPP, moved the resolution which criticised the Supreme Court judgment directing the Election Commission to advance the date of presidential election by a week and hold it on July 30.
Policeman killed in attack on polio team By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, July 30: A policeman was killed when gunmen attacked a team administering polio drops to children in the Killi Tarata area of Pishin district on Tuesday. The District Communications Officer of Unicef, Shamsullah Tareen, told journalists that assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on the team when volunteers were administering polio vaccine to children outside a house in Killi Tarata.
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