DINA for the issue of December 23, 2013
 | December 23, 2013 | Safar 19, 1435 | |||||
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Electricity dues pile upBy Khawar GhummanISLAMABAD: Despite having pumped hundreds of billions of rupees to clear the circular debt build-up in the electricity sector, the government is yet to show any urgency for the clearance of a staggering Rs445bn of receivables owed to electricity distribution companies across the country – jeopardising the financial viability of the entire electricity sector once again. According to official documents available with Dawn, the major chunk of Rs325bn receivables was due from the private sector whereas the government organisations have to pay Rs120bn to electricity companies operating throughout the country. | ||||||
Two hurt as shell hits Mirali houseBy Our CorrespondentMIRAMSHAH: Two people were injured when an artillery shell hit a house in Manan Kot area near Mirali as the North Waziristan tribal region remained under curfew for the sixth day on Sunday. Locals said security forces, backed by artillery and helicopter gunships, fired back after terrorists attacked a convoy in Manan Kot. The convoy was coming to Miramshah from Bannu. | ||||||
Imran puts pressure on govtBy Mansoor MalikLAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan gave on Sunday a nine-point agenda to end inflation, unemployment, corruption and various socio-economic problems and announced that the party’s “tsunami movement” against price hike and oppression would be expanded to Sindh and Rawalpindi next month. He was addressing a massive rally on The Mall which could not reach its Chairing Cross destination and ended at the GPO-High Court Chowk after travelling about one kilometre in over two hours. | ||||||
Inside the pm’s lahore constituencyBy Nasir JamalTHE 60-plus man walking along the colonial-era General Post Office building in Lahore smiled when I interrupted his peace to ask if he was an Imran Khan supporter. “That does not matter. I like to be a part of any political rally in the city, to get the drift of things,” he replied, and then he came up with his latest update: “The presence of so many people here today exposes a vacuum. Some party has to fill it… Imran is the only political challenge to Nawaz Sharif in my hometown as of today.” This was not just his hometown; it was Nawaz’s home constituency. This is from where the PML-N leader had returned to the National Assembly in the May general elections, as he had done in the earlier elections. If that was not symbolic enough, The Mall or Mall Road is from where operate some of the most affluent and influential traders who have sided with the Sharifs over all these years. This was where the free judiciary was centred, where the PTI and PML-N sympathisers had marched shoulder to shoulder until they succeeded in bringing back Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. | ||||||
NA speaker seeks better communication among Saarc countriesISLAMABAD: Lack of goodwill and absence of proper communication between them have kept member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) from achieving their common goals, said National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on Sunday. Addressing inaugural session of the Seventh Conference of the Association of Saarc Speakers and Parliamentarians in Male, Maldives, Mr Sadiq remarked: “The multiple deficits of information, communication and goodwill in this age of globalisation have hindered the optimum realisation of our common dreams.” | ||||||
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