DINA for the issue of April 29, 2014

	April 29, 2014 | Jamadi-ul-Saani 28, 1435
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Govt to pursue specified agenda in talks with TTP By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD: A high-level meeting on national security decided on Monday to pursue specified agenda in talks with Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and to make the process result-oriented.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks down 158.46 Points: KARACHI, April 28: At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was 28691.62 ,down 158.46 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, April 28 : The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.25 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Three seminary students die in blast By Imtiaz Ali KARACHI: Three pupils were killed and four others injured in an explosion inside a seminary in Orangi Town here on Monday. Mominabad police said it was an ‘accident’, but the seminary administration and a religious party insisted that it was an act of terrorism.
Aziz holds talks in Tehran to set agenda of PM’s visit By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz held talks in Tehran on Monday to set the agenda of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Iran from May 11. He met Iranian President Dr Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and officials of the ministry of finance.
Increased loadshedding worries prime minister By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: With temperature still below 40 degree Celsius, ghosts of loadshedding have already started haunting the length and breadth of the country. The most worried at the moment is obviously Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif since his party had won elections on the promise of dealing with the power crisis on a war footing. With demonstrations being held over loadshedding in the interior of Sindh, where mercury in some districts has crossed 40C, and Punjab subjected to increasing outages, the government appears to have bent its mind to addressing the problem.
Militants’ hideouts pounded in South Waziristan By Sailab Mahsud LADHA: Military helicopters and artillery attacked militants’ hideouts in the mountainous Bobar area of South Waziristan tribal region on Monday where a day earlier three security personnel, including an army officer, had been killed in a bomb blast. According to tribal people and Taliban sources, three helicopters carried out the attack on the hideouts from 3 to 4pm.
BALOCHISTAN COUNCILLORS LOOKING FOR PURPOSE By Aurangzaib Khan WHAT has local government got to do with birds? Not much, on the face of it. Ajmal Panezai remembers dying sparrows, scores of them, scattered across the lawn. They fell from pine trees that wailed like banshees in the storm, whipped by the wind and rain. “Then came the water from the drains outside, drowning the birds before I could save them,” says Panezai in a quiet voice. “It was like the lawn had grown alien feathery flowers,” he reflects.
Religion, caste matter in Indian Punjab From Tahir Mehdi in Ludhiana ELECTION time in Indian Punjab is mirror time. All the scars on the face of this only Sikh-majority state of India are pointed at by contrasting political interests. They might not ache but they do help the vying parties revoke some painful stories from the past and hedge their electoral bets with some emotional stuff. Punjab has only 13 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats, but the contests here this time have acquired more importance than the numerical significance of this state for a host of reasons. All major parties have fielded their strongmen here.
Power shortfall exceeds 6,000MW By Ahmad Fraz Khan LAHORE: With most parts of the country sizzling at up to 45 degree Celsius, the power situation, as expected, worsened on Monday. Electricity shortfall crossed 6,000MW, with urban areas facing 12 and rural areas up to 18 hours of loadshedding. Officials, however, claimed the shortfall was only 2,300MW – generation about 11,000MW and demand just over 13,000MW – or only 20 per cent.
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