DINA for the issue of March 26, 2014

	March 26, 2014 | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 24, 1435
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Govt wants 2 military officers tried under army act, SC told By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was informed on Tuesday that the federal government wanted two serving military officers tried under the Pakistan Army Act (PAA) 1952 for their alleged involvement in enforced disappearances of Baloch people.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks down 374.08 Points: KARACHI, March 24 : At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was 26391.41 ,down 374.08 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, March 25 : The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 100.50 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Leaders call for more steps to prevent N-terror THE HAGUE: World leaders called upon countries on Tuesday to cut their use and stocks of highly enriched nuclear fuel to the minimum to help prevent militants from obtaining material for atomic bombs. Winding up the third Nuclear Security Summit, 53 countries — including the United States and Russia at a time of high tension between them — agreed much headway had been made in the past four years.
Bad weather defers govt-TTP talks Bureau Report PESHAWAR: Talks scheduled for Tuesday between government negotiators and the leadership of outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan were deferred because of bad weather. Prof Mohammad Ibrahim, a member of the TTP negotiation team, said that a new date for talks would be announced soon. He was talking to newsmen at Jamaat-i-Islami’s provincial headquarters.
Minister appeases hardliners on child marriage bill By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD: The religious affairs minister on Tuesday seemed appeasing mullahs who failed to stop the introduction of a private bill in the National Assembly that seeks to make child marriage a cognizable offence with higher punishment for violations. The bill, brought by five lawmakers of the ruling PML-N, invited a retrogressive tirade from Maulana Mohammad Khan Shirani, chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) and a member of the government-allied Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F), who, along with another party colleague, called the move contrary to Islam and the Constitution, pressing a stance that recently outraged liberal circles and rights groups.
PAC chief comes under criticism over hasty decisions By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Shah of the PPP, ‘settled’ rather hastily two audit objections on Tuesday about a power project, leading to criticism that he was “going soft on irregularities committed during the 2008-13 tenure of PPP-led government”. At a PAC meeting, federal auditors came up with an objection which involved financial anomaly of Rs5.17 billion in the tendering process for civil works of the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project.
Relatives of Chinese passengers scuffle with guards at Malaysian embassy BEIJING: Emotional relatives of Chinese passengers on crashed Flight MH370 scuffled with guards outside Malaysia’s embassy on Tuesday and abused the ambassador, demanding answers about the plane’s mysterious ‘demise’ in the stormy Indian Ocean. But gale-force winds and huge waves halted the search for wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines plane, deferring relatives’ quest for physical proof of the plane’s destruction and the loss of its 239 passengers and crew.
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