DINA for the issue of April 5th , 2014

	April 5, 2014 | Jamadi-ul-Saani 4, 1435
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Couple sentenced to death for blasphemy By Our Correspondent TOBA TEK SINGH: A local court sentenced on Friday a Christian couple to death for blasphemy and fined them Rs100,000 each.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Bilawal opposes dialogue process By M.B. Kalhoro GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH: PPP Patron-in-Chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has criticised the government’s dialogue policy and said “terrorists are not Muslims”. Addressing a public meeting to mark the 35th death anniversary of PPP founding chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto here on Friday, he said if terrorists succeeded in their designs, innocent girls would be buried alive.
Another round of direct talks next week By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: Amid hopes that the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan will take positive steps because of the commencement of the process of freeing non-combatant prisoners, official sources said here on Friday that the next round of direct talks between the government’s negotiating team and the Taliban shura would take place next week. An official said that Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had convened a meeting of the committees representing the government and the TTP on Saturday.
Iranian border guardsreleased TEHRAN: Iranian border guards captured by Jaish al-Adl rebels near the Pakistani border in February have been freed, the extremist group and an Iranian official announced on Friday. According to media reports, four of the five abducted men and the body of the fifth whom the rebels said last month they had slain were handed over to Iranian officials.
Imran defuses crisis within party By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: Months-long infighting in the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa witnessed a drop scene on Friday. An estranged 13-member group of PTI’s provincial lawmakers met party chairman Imran Khan at his residence and reportedly got an assurance that he would try to allay their concerns. In return, the group expressed its complete trust in the leadership and vowed to work within the party discipline.
Uncertainty about Afghan polls’ final result By Mahvish Ahmad ON the day before elections, the streets of Kabul are eerily quiet. Groups of men no larger than two or three tramp down empty streets. A market stands half-open, selling essentials like meat, fruits, vegetables, and toiletries. And security checkpoints stop passersby, asking questions, checking IDs. The repressed uncertainty that has marred the last few weeks reveals itself in the silence that seems to hang heavy in the air: No one really knows what will happen on Friday when Afghans cast their vote for a new president. It will be the fifth time that Afghanistan will be voting since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, and the third time that they will be electing a president. The election is seen as a crucial turning point: Nato/Isaf troops are set to withdraw, or substantially reduce, their presence in the next few months, and a two-year term limit means incumbent Hamid Karzai, the face of post-Taliban Afghanistan, will not be running this year. But, Afghans might not know what the turning point looks like: A combination of a wide-open race and election irregularities means that it could take several days, or months, before a clear, and widely-accepted winner emerges..
Three men sentenced to hang for multiple rapes MUMBAI: An Indian judge on Friday ordered three men to hang after they were convicted of two gang-rapes, the first death sentences to be handed down for multiple sex attacks since the law was toughened last year. The sentences were announced at a court in Mumbai on the same day that a judge jailed 24 men in the southern state of Kerala over the gang-rape of a schoolgirl who was repeatedly sexually assaulted over a 40-day period in 1996.
Babri mosque demolition was ‘planned’ NEW DELHI: An elaborate sting operation, conducted on 23 key people of the Ram Janambhoomi movement by an Indian website magazine, has claimed that the demolition of the Babri Masjid on Dec 6, 1992, was elaborately planned by various wings of the Sangh Parivar and executed with precision by trained volunteers. It wasn’t, as it was made out, a case of mob frenzy going out of control, according to the sting.
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