DINA for the issue of November 4, 2013

	November 4, 2013 | Zilhaj 29, 1434
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Consultations today on ties with US Dawn Report and Agencies ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: Pakistan is to review its relationship with the United States, the prime minister’s office said on Sunday, following the killing of Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud in a US drone strike.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Asmatullah named interim TTP chief By Our Correspondent MIRAMSHAH, Nov 3: Asmatullah Shaheen was appointed on Sunday interim chief of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, two days after Hakeemullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone strike. TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told this correspondent on phone from an unspecified place that Asmatullah would head the organisation till the appointment of a new chief.
US rejects Pak protest By Our Correspondent WASHINGTON: The US has rejected insinuations that the attack on Mehsud intended to destroy Pakistan’s nascent peace process. A US State Department official said talks with the Taliban were an internal matter for Pakistan.
NAB to summon Gilani in Ogra case By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: The National Accountability Bureau has completed investigation into Rs82 billion Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority scam and decided to summon former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in another case relating to illegal appointment of former Ogra chief Tauqeer Sadiq, according to sources. The Rawalpindi-Islamabad office of NAB has completed the probe into the alleged corruption in Ogra and sent it to the bureau’s headquarters for a final review in its executive broad meeting. NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry is expected to sign in two weeks a supplementary reference against former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the rental power projects (RPP) scam and the Rs82bn Ogra corruption case.
Probe into Balochistan wheat stock By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, Nov 3: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has launched an investigation into alleged corruption in the Balochistan food department and asked it to submit record of procurement of wheat made over the past three years after receiving reports about misappropriation of funds released for the purpose. A team from the provincial NAB office interrogated several officers and other staff of the department and noted that the wheat stock in warehouses in Nasirabad, Jaffarabad, Quetta, Pishin, Sibi and Hub was hundreds of thousands of bags short of the figures shown in the record. The bureau’s teams also raided several warehouses and some officials and private contractors are likely to be arrested soon.
JUI-F calls for another APC on Taliban talks By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F asked the government on Sunday to convene another all-party conference to review the situation in the wake of the killing of TTP chief Hakeemullah Mehsud in a US drone attack, whereas Jamaat-i-Islami called for permanently stopping Nato supply. Maulana Fazlur Rehman said in a statement that the JUI-F would move its own resolution in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday to seek blockade of Nato supply. He, however, said that his party was ready to support the provincial PTI government if it issued an executive order to stop Nato supply.
Folk singer Reshman passes away By Shoaib Ahmed LAHORE, Nov 3: Reshman, one of the most popular folk singers of the country, died at a hospital here on Sunday. She was 66. She leaves behind two sons.
US lawmaker justifies killing of Hakeemullah WASHINGTON, Nov 3: A US lawmaker on Sunday defended the drone strike that killed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Hakeemullah Mehsud and said it would help keep American troops safe. Representative Mike Rogers, who chairs the House of Representatives’ permanent intelligence committee, said that Mehsud was a ‘bad guy’ who was connected to attacks against Pakistani soldiers and to the Taliban in Afghanistan, who forced closures of many schools for girls.
Indo-Pak border officialsexchange sweets By Our Correspondent NEW DELHI, Nov 3: Indian and Pakistani troopers exchanged sweets instead of bullets on Sunday to mark Diwali, India’s festival of lights, Zee News reported. The fellowship and good cheer on the Wagah/Attari border crossing was not an unusual feature between soldiers. In the past they had exchanged greetings and sweets routinely even when the Line of Control was more tense.
Of the farmhouse & street where TTP leader was killed MIRAMSHAH, Nov 3: With marble floors, lush green lawns and a towering minaret, the $120,000 farmhouse where Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud died in a US drone strike was no grubby mountain cave. Mehsud spent his days skipping around Pakistan’s rugged tribal areas to avoid the attention of US drones. But his family, including two wives, had the use of an eight-room farmhouse set amid lawns and orchards growing apples, oranges, grapes and pomegranates.
Four die in attack on jirga KALAYA, Nov 3: Four people were killed in a hand-grenade attack on a tribal jirga and two attackers were gunned down by volunteers of a local peace lashkar in lower Kurram Agency on Sunday. Sources said that the jirga of tribal elders was under way in the Khamar area of lower Kurram tehsil to resolve a land dispute between two factions of the Baba Nawasy tribe when youths of one faction hurled hand-grenades.
Effective monitoring of ISI by parliament suggested By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights has recommended an effective role of parliament in monitoring the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and putting it under civilian control. A report unanimously adopted by the committee was presented in the house on Wednesday but couldn’t be taken up for discussion because of opposition’s boycott of the session.
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