DINA for the issue of April 24, 2014

	April 24, 2014 | Jamadi-ul-Saani 23, 1435
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Pakistan joins the 3G club By Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: The four cellular service providers bidding on licences for next generation mobile technology emerged the winners of Wednesday’s bidding war, with Mobilink, Telenor and Ufone picking up licences for 3G services while Zong being the only bidder to acquire a licence for both 3G and 4G services.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks down 474.65 Points: KARACHI, April 23: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was 28717.19 ,down 474.65 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, April 23 : The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.25 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Pemra forms committee to investigate charges against Geo TV By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) formed on Wednesday a three-member committee to investigate charges levelled by the defence ministry against Geo TV for what it called “maligning the premier spy agency of the country and harming the national interest” in its coverage of the attack on senior journalist Hamid Mir, a Pemra official told Dawn. The authority also issued notices to the TV channel’s administration in Karachi asking its chief executive officer and other senior staff members to appear before the committee by May 6.
PM orders reshuffle in bureaucracy By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: While the news media remained focused on the defence ministry’s application to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) for cancellation of Geo TV channel’s licence, it was business as usual at the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday where Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spent a busy day. The prime minister ordered reshuffle in the federal bureaucracy besides holding two lengthy back-to-back meetings on the state of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and the most important one on the schedule of loadshedding over the next four months.
Way paved for another round of talks with TTP shura By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: The committees representing the government and the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan decided on Wednesday to form a sub-committee to address complaints from the two sides. The sub-committee will comprise representatives of the federal and provincial governments and ‘other stakeholders’ and members of the two peace committees.
Licence auction fetches $1.12bn By Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD: The auction of 3G and 4G licences has made Pakistan nearly $1.12 billion or Rs111 billion richer, putting it very close to the expected $1.2 billion target the government had set for itself in the budget for FY2013-14. The government had expected to make Rs120 billion and was counting on revenue from the telecom auction to balance the budget, instead of focusing on revenue generation through widening the tax net.
Govt suffers second defeat in two weeks By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: The government faced another defeat in the opposition-dominated Senate on Wednesday when the house rejected the controversial Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) Ordinance with a majority vote. This was the second defeat to the government in two weeks as it had earlier failed to block an opposition-sponsored amendment to the Senate rules binding the prime minister to attend a sitting of the house at least once in a week.
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