DINA for the issue of April 9, 2014

	April 9, 2014 | Jamadi-ul-Saani 8, 1435
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17 burn to death in train blast at Sibi By Saleem Shahid QUETTA: At least 17 people, two women and four children among them, burned to death and over 45 were injured in a powerful explosion in a carriage of a Rawalpindi-bound train at the Sibi station on Tuesday.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks up 74.41 Points: KARACHI, April 8 : At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was 28653.37 ,up 74.41 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, April 8 : The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 100.20 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Landslides kill 10 of a family, five others By Syed Zahid Jan UPPER DIR: Fifteen people, 10 of them belonging to a family, were killed and seven others injured in two incidents of landslide in Upper Dir on Tuesday. A house in Badran near Kalkot in Kohistan was hit early in the morning and seven children and three elders of a family were buried under the debris, police and local people said.
Minister calls parliament ‘most powerful’ institution By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD: A day after a statement by Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif vowing the army would “resolutely preserve” its dignity, two senior government ministers took the floor of the National Assembly on Tuesday to reject a perception that people lacked trust in parliamentarians they voted for in elections. On the last day of a 16-day session of the house that passed off smoothly after Monday’s noisy furore over the bulldozing of a controversial anti-terrorism bill by the government, no lawmaker from either side of the aisle made a direct mention of the army chief’s speech at a commando base in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, which otherwise seemed to attract a lot of attention from politicians and the media.
Commanders meet today By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Army’s top brass is meeting on Wednesday, soon after Gen Raheel Sharif caused a stir with his remarks at a Special Services Group base in Tarbela. The meeting, which is commonly known as Corps Commanders’ Conference, is a routine monthly affair at the General Headquarters where the commanders get together to discuss “professional matters and issues that are impacting national security”, but this time round the timing is being seen as important.
With unease, govt agrees to MPs’ tax probe ISLAMABAD: Despite showing some unease over a perceived attempt to belittle parliament, the treasury benches joined in a unanimous adoption of an opposition motion in the National Assembly on Tuesday asking its speaker to form a committee to investigate allegations of non-payment of taxes by parliamentarians. Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq had earlier agreed to take up, out of turn, the motion tabled by Asad Umar and six other members of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) on the allegation of tax non-payment by parliamentarians on the insistence of PTI’s chairman Imran Khan and vice-chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi — both of them noting that it was the sixth attempt to have the motion discussed — as well as support from opposition leader Khursheed Ahmed Shah of the PPP.
Eight killed as militant groups clash in South Waziristan By Our Correspondent LADDHA: At least eight militants died and three wounded in running battles between two rival groups in Shaktoi and two other places in South Waziristan on Tuesday, sources said. Sources privy to the warring groups said that militants allied with Khan Said Group raided the bases of rival Sheharyar Group in Shaktoi, Makeen and Bobar late on Monday. The bases belonged to late Qari Hussain, Commander Achanak and Abu Nasir, associated with Sheharyar Group, sources said.
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