DINA for the issue of October 8, 2013

	October 8, 2013 | Zilhaj 2, 1434
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Polio team attacked near Peshawar; 2 dead By Ali Hazrat Bacha and Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Oct 7: A police official and a volunteer of an anti-militancy committee were killed and 13 people were injured when a bomb blew up a police van deployed outside a healthcare centre at Badbher to escort a team of polio vaccinators on Monday.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 221.11 Points: KARACHI, October 07: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 21864.85, down 221.11 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, October 07: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 106.65 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Nawaz to name COAS, CJCSC simultaneously By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sought on Monday more time for making key military appointments and said he would name both the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) and the Chief of Army Staff together. In a statement issued after consultations with his senior aides, the prime minister did not specify when he would make the announcement.
Malala supports talks with Taliban LONDON, Oct 7: Malala Yousufzai said on Monday she hoped to become a politician to “change the future of my country”. The 16-year-old, whose continued fight for all children to go to school has made her a favourite for the Nobel peace prize this week, also backed dialogue with the Taliban, although she said this was an issue for the government. “I will be a politician in my future. I want to change the future of my country and I want to make education compulsory,” she said in a BBC interview.
‘Over 57,600 bogus votes cast in a constituency’ By Tahir Siddiqui KARACHI, Oct 7: Another report of the National Database and Registration Authority has put a question mark on the transparency of May 11 general elections as verification of thumb impressions and other election material have confirmed allegations of rigging on a National Assembly seat in Karachi. Nadra had carried out the examination of 84,748 votes in NA-256 on an application of the runner-up, Muhammad Zubair Khan of the PTI. Iqbal Muhammad Ali Khan of the MQM had won the seat.
Ecnec approves Rs42bn projects in different sectors By Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approved on Monday nine projects of Rs42.9 billion in energy, education, health, transport and communications, irrigation and water sectors. These include two hydropower projects for Punjab to be completed at a cost of Rs24.8 billion. A meeting of Ecnec was informed that the Punjab government had started work on the two projects and work on another project of 84 megawatts was recently launched in the private sector. Besides, Punjab will soon undertake the Taunsa Hydropower Project of 125 megawatts.
International aid agencies barred from Awaran By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: The government is not allowing international humanitarian aid agencies to go into earthquake-affected districts of Balochistan. In a press statement posted on its website on Oct 4, France-based Doctors Without Boarders has resented the government’s reluctance to allow its medical care providers to enter Awaran, the area which suffered the most when the earthquake struck the province on Sept 24.
Scholar, writer Daud Rahbar passes away in US By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Oct 7: Eminent scholar, writer, poet, musician and thinker Daud Rahbar passed away at a nursing home in Deerfield Beach, Florida, the United States, on Saturday. He was 86. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. Born in 1926, Mr Rahbar spent his early days in Lahore where he showed fondness for writing poetry at the age of eight.
Malala ‘hijacked’ by anti-Islam forces: Sami By Suhail Kakakhel NOWSHERA, Oct 7: The chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and chairman of the Pakistan Defence Council, Maulana Samiul Haq, has alleged that Western and anti-Islam powers have ‘hijacked’ Malala Yousufzai to use her for their nefarious designs against the Ummah. Talking to foreign and local reporters at his office in Darul Ulum-i-Haqqania at Akora Khattak, he said: “They are rubbing salt on the wounds of Muslims by using Malala Yousufzai against her Muslim brothers.”
Musharraf’s plea dismissed ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: The Supreme Court dismissed on Monday a plea of former president retired General Pervez Musharraf seeking transfer of Nawab Akbar Bugti’s murder case from Quetta to Islamabad for security reasons. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk said in its order that it was the authority of the federal government to transfer a case from one city to another, adding the Balochistan High Court had also on Aug 24 rejected a similar request of Gen Musharraf.
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