DINA for the issue of December 22, 2013

	December 22, 2013 | Safar 18, 1435
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NAB revives 300 high-profile cases By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Reversing the last government’s shelving of cases against certain politicians and bureaucrats, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has reactivated over 300 high-profile cases, sources in the NAB have told Dawn.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Army chief vows to hit back against militants By Bureau Report PESHAWAR: In an unannounced visit to the army corps headquarters in the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif vowed that terrorist attacks “will not be tolerated and will be responded (to) effectively”, according to an Inter Services Public Relations statement on Saturday. The army chief’s comments came after days of clashes in the Mirali region of North Waziristan in which, according to military claims, several dozen militants were killed, though locals disputed those claims and suggested many civilians too had died.
Corrupt employees to get the sack By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD: Branded as an exercise in clean governance, a new, fast-track initiative to dismiss employees of state-owned enterprises, and even civil servants, is being rushed through by the federal government in the form of the “Elimination of Corruption from Public Service Ordinance, 2013”. Informed sources have told Dawn that the government has been waiting for the two houses of the parliament to prorogue so that it can promulgate the ordinance which provides for the dismissal, removal or compulsory retirement of employees of the federal government, its corporate entities, autonomous bodies and departments.
Polio vaccinator shot dead By Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL: A polio worker was gunned down in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency on Saturday. Officials said that anti-polio campaign supervisor Ghilaf Khan, 35, was administering polio vaccine at a government-run dispensary in the Ghundi area when he was attacked by armed men riding a motorcycle.
Balochistan: madressahs the fallback option By Syed Ali Shah AT the age of 40, Abdul Rahim Jan earns a meagre income of Rs9,000 a month selling potatoes off a pushcart in the dusty Nawan Killi area of Quetta. “I cannot pay school fees or buy costly books for my children,” he tells Dawn. So his nine-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter study in two seminaries. “The madressahs provide free religious education and food to them,” he says.
Mehsuds: interred in an alien land By Ismail Khan PESHAWAR: Rapa Khan is a Shamankhel Mehsud by tribe and like many of his fellow tribesmen with two houses — one in the Mehsud hinterland and the other in neighbouring Dera Ismail Khan or Tank district — every summer, he would make a trip to his native Sararogha in South Waziristan. “Things have changed,” Rapa Khan muses. The Mehsuds, no matter where they lived, have tried to bury their dead in their native land. But with the military now in control of parts of their territory and militants still holding out in the countryside, the 73-year-old Rapa Khan, like thousands of Mehsuds, is reluctant to go back, not even to bury his dead.
Erdogan blames foreign envoys for graft probe against allies ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to expel foreign ambassadors on Saturday, blaming them for a vast corruption and bribery investigation mounting against people close to his government. Riot police, meanwhile, stood guard as hundreds protested against the government.
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