DINA for the issue of April 28, 2014

	April 28, 2014 | Jamadi-ul-Saani 27, 1435
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PTA ordered to curtail use of Afghan SIMs By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: The government has directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to curtail the operations of Afghan cellular phones in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of security issues.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
IMF asks govt to raise age of retirement By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund has advised the government to increase the retirement age and contain pensions bill as part of a reform programme. Pakistan’s federal expenditure on salaries and pensions is estimated at about Rs450 billion, including pension expenses of about Rs171bn for the current financial year. Provincial pay and pension bills are much higher than the federal bill.
Gilani says kidnappers of his son don’t want ransom By Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that he has been in contact with the kidnappers of his son Ali Haider over the past year but they have never demanded ransom because they are interested only in securing release of some prisoners. “They want release of certain prisoners from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi and, according to my information, a few of them have been recently freed by the government. But it has failed to secure the release of my son, or of Shahbaz Taseer, the son of slain Punjab governor Salman Taseer, and other innocent captives in return,” Mr Gilani said while talking to Dawn here on Sunday.
Officer, two soldiers killed in Waziristan By Our Reporter ISLAMABAD: An officer and at least two soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack in the troubled tribal areas on Sunday evening. According to a brief statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations, three other security personnel suffered injuries in the attack.
Sami says he and Fazl agree on govt-TTP peace process By Suhail Kakakhel NOWSHERA: Maulana Samiul Haq, the head of the Taliban negotiating team and chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, has said that some forces in the country are creating what he called an ‘artificial’ crisis to divert government’s attention from real issues. “Sometimes these elements start a war between the army and the government and sometimes between the media and institutions,” he said while addressing a public meeting held to pay tribute to late Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim Fani at Akora Khattak on Sunday.
India’s anti-ballistic missile test successful BHUBANESWAR: India successfully test-fired an anti-ballistic missile on Sunday capable of intercepting targets outside the planet’s atmosphere, a major step in development of a missile defence system available to only a handful of nations. Sharing borders with nuclear-armed China and Pakistan, India is developing a two-tier missile defence system that aims to provide a multi-layered shield against ballistic missile attack.
Modi says if he becomes PM he will hunt Dawood By Our Correspondent NEW DELHI: BJP leader Narendra Modi has said if he wins the elections he would bring fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to India to be tried for the 1993 blasts in Mumbai. He told a Gujarati news channel on Saturday that the previous administrations had not tried hard enough.
Palestinian president terms ‘Holocaust’ most heinous crime of modern history JERUSALEM: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called the Nazi Holocaust “the most heinous crime” against humanity in modern times, in an apparent bid to build bridges with Israel days after collapse of troubled peace talks. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the overture on Sunday and said Abbas’s power-sharing deal with Hamas, which led Israel to suspend the negotiations on Thursday, put him in partnership with a group that denied the Holocaust and sought the Jewish state’s destruction.
Pro-Russia rebels parade European observers as war prisoners SLAVYANSK (Ukraine): Pro-Russia militants in Ukraine presented a captured team of international observers as “prisoners of war” on Sunday, raising the stakes in the crisis as US President Barack Obama warned Moscow against “provocation”. The self-styled mayor of rebel-held Slavyansk, which has become the epicentre of the crisis, led eight European members of an OSCE military inspection mission before scores of local and foreign journalists in the town hall.
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