DINA for the issue of March 23, 2014

	March 23, 2014 | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 21, 1435
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36 killed in horrific accident near Hub By Imtiaz Ali KARACHI: At least 36 people burned to death on Saturday when two passenger coaches and a pickup rammed into an overturned truck on RCD Highway near Hub in Balochistan. All the vehicles caught fire after the collision.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
NAB officer shot dead in Karachi By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI: An investigation officer of the National Accountability Bureau, Sindh, and a boy were gunned down in Sharfabad area on Saturday night, police said. New Town SHO Inam Husain Junejo said DSP Agha Jamil was having dinner at a restaurant when armed men on a bike opened fire, leaving him and a woman and her 10-year-old son, Faizan, injured.
Venue for direct talks finalised By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: The stage is finally set for direct talks between a new government committee and the Shura of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in an attempt to address the twin challenges of terrorism and militancy. In what many see as a breakthrough, the committees representing the government and the Taliban held their first joint meeting here at the Punjab House on Saturday and agreed on the venue for direct talks. The meeting was presided over by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
Non-implementation of 18th amendment affects ordinary lives By Amjad Mahmood LAHORE: Ahmed Yar, an industrial worker from a central Punjab district, applied to the Workers Welfare Board for a marriage grant when he arranged the wedding of his daughter in 2009. Knowing well that official procedural hiccups consume months, he got a loan from a friend on an understanding that he would pay back the amount after getting Rs70,000 as marriage grant and went ahead with the marriage ceremony.
NO JUSTICE FOR AMINAS OF THE COUNTRY By Nasir Jamal THE Mir Hazar Khan police aren’t inhospitable, at least not in normal circumstances. But Wednesday wasn’t a routine day at the police station in Muzaffargarh’s Jatoi tehsil. Punjab’s top spy was trying to determine the circumstances that had forced Amina Mai to burn herself to death just outside the police station a week earlier. He was also focusing on the police’s role in the release, without a proper probe, of the man Amina accused of raping her on Jan 5. Another team headed by the top provincial investigator was due to arrive the next morning to probe the rape case on the apex court’s orders.
Some madressahs spread disinformation about security policy, says Nisar By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that with a view to gaining ‘political advantages’ some madressahs are spreading false information about the National Security Policy. Talking by phone to Muhammad Rafi Usmani, the grand mufti of Pakistan and vice-president of Wifaqul Madaris Al Arabiya, the minister said that such rumours were particularly damaging for the country in the existing atmosphere.
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