DINA for the issue of March 10, 2014

	March 10, 2014 | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 8, 1435
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Imran urged to let KP chief minister join govt committee By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: The PML-N is reported to have started back-channel contacts to persuade the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to agree to the inclusion of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak in the government committee for holding direct talks with the Taliban leadership. Well-informed sources told Dawn on Sunday that Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had been in constant touch with PTI Chairman Imran Khan and met him several times in recent days at the Parliament House and at his Islamabad residence.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks up 57.27 Points: KARACHI, March 7 : At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was 26899.80, up 57.27 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, march 07 : The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 102.50 to the US Dollar in the open market.
PM to visit drought-hit Tharparkar today By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to announce a relief package for the affected people during his visit to the drought-hit areas of Tharparkar on Monday. Information Minister Pervez Rashid said the federal government wanted to help the people affected by the calamity and assured the Sindh government that the centre would fully support its efforts to tide over the crisis.
BNP-M leader, guard shot dead By A Correspondent KHUZDAR: Haji Attaullah Mohammad Zai, a central leader of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal, and his security guard were gunned down here on Sunday. According to police, another guard of the BNP-M leader was injured in the attack.
Altaf urges caution in dialogue with militants By Amjad Mahmood LAHORE: Notwithstanding the criticism he had to face from almost all political quarters for urging the armed forces to assume charge of the country if the rulers failed to aptly tackle the Taliban issue, MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Sunday again called upon the army “to hold the hands of the masses” in the present situation. He was speaking by phone at a ‘Sufi conference’ organised by his party amid tight security. Police pickets had been set up almost 1km from the venue to frisk the participants before allowing them to pass by.
Malik said to be in contact with ‘angry Baloch leaders’ By Saleem Shahid QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch is in contact with some of the ‘angry Baloch leaders’ for initiating a process of dialogue to resolve issues faced by the province, says provincial Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti. Talking to newsmen on the occasion of the dispatching of two trucks loaded with bags of rice for the drought-hit people of Tharparkar on Sunday, he said the federal government and Balochistan Assembly had empowered the chief minister to approach Baloch insurgent leaders and work out a process of dialogue for reconciliation.
S. Arabia, India decide to deepen ties NEW DELHI: With the strengthening of strategic ties, India and Saudi Arabia seek to transform the ‘buyer-seller’ relationship in the oil sector to one of deeper partnership focusing on investments and joint ventures in third countries. The recent visit of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud to New Delhi boosted strategic ties and the two countries agreed to explore ways and means to transform their buyer-seller relationship. Saudi Arabia is India’s fourth largest trading partner at $43.78 billion in fiscal 2012-13. In the April-November period of the current fiscal, the two-way trade was $32.7 billion.
Suicide bomber kills 37 in Iraq HILLA (Iraq): A suicide bomber killed 37 people, including two state television employees, at a checkpoint near Baghdad on Sunday. Iraq has been hit by a year-long surge in violence that has reached levels not seen since 2008, driven principally by widespread discontent among its Sunni Arab minority and by the civil war in neighbouring Syria.
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