DINA for the issue of November 3, 2013

	November 3, 2013 | Zilhaj 28, 1434
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Power theft costs Rs100bn By Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: Electricity theft from the distribution system soared over eight per cent in the past few years, according to an official document. This is the highest rate of power theft in the region, which translates into an annual loss of about Rs100 billion.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks Down 126.76 Points: KARACHI, November 1: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 22649.09, down 126.76 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, November 1: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 107.35 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Ties with US to be reviewed, says Nisar By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has hinted that the country’s love-hate relationship with the United States could be redefined against the backdrop of the killing of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakeemullah Mehsud in a US drone attack. “The Cabinet Committee on National Security will shortly meet to review the entire gamut of relationship and cooperation at all levels with the United States,” the minister told a press conference on Thursday.
FO calls US envoy to lodge protest By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: Richard G. Olson, the US Ambassador to Islamabad, was “called” to the Foreign Office on Saturday to formally protest the latest drone attacks carried out by Washington just nine days after a meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Barack Obama. The ambassador was called hours after media reports that the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s chief Hakeemullah Mehsud had been killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan on Friday.
Taliban bury chief, threaten revenge By Sailab Mehsud and Pazir Gul LADHA / MIRAMSHAH, Nov 2: The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Saturday termed Hakeemullah Mehsud’s death in a drone strike on Friday a major setback for “Jihadi groups”. Maulana Azam Tariq, a spokesman for TTP’s South Waziristan chapter, told Dawn that the militants would continue their ‘Jihad’. “We have faith that hundreds of thousands more Mujahideen will take birth… and we will take revenge from America and its associates”.
Smooth succession in TTP unlikely By Ismail Khan THE quest for succession has begun in earnest — and understandably so. Unlike the near-smooth succession of Hakeemullah Mehsud as Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan supremo following the death of Baitullah Mehsud in a drone strike in August 2009, the situation now is less than certain. There is no clear leader to lead the more than thirty militant groups operating in the country’s tribal borderland.
KP to block Nato supplies, warns Imran By Mansoor Malik LAHORE, Nov 2: Reacting to the killing of Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud in a US drone attack on Friday, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has resolved that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will cut off Nato supply lines even if it ceases to exist due to the extreme step. A “strong” resolution against drone attacks and the “sabotaging of the process of peace talks” will be tabled in an emergency session of the KP Assembly on Monday.
Thousands move out of Miramshah By Our Correspondent MIRAMSHAH, Nov 2: Following ‘instructions’ issued by Taliban Shura, a large number of families left headquarters of North Waziristan Agency for settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, as political administration announced that curfew would be imposed here on Sunday. Expressing anger over the alleged shelling of residential areas by the security forces, Shura Mujahideen of the agency headed by Hafiz Gul Bahadur asked on Friday residents of Miramshah and nearby villages to move to safe areas within a week.
Iranian ‘spy executed’ By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Nov 2: Body of an Iranian national was found hanging from a tree in Mashkel, near the border with Iran, in Washuk district of Balochistan on Saturday. An Iran-based and banned outfit, Jaishul Adl, claimed responsibility for killing the man who the group described as an Iranian spy.
Four injured in fire at Saudi prison RIYADH, Nov 2: Four people were injured on Saturday when a fire broke out during rioting by prisoners at a jail in northern Saudi Arabia during weekly visiting hours, a spokesman for the prisons authority said. The Saudi state news agency SPA quoted the official as saying that authorities restored order while fire-fighters put out the fire.
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