DINA for the issue of July 12, 2014

	12 July, 2014 / Ramazan 13, 1435
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Musharraf resigned under deal: Gilani Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: PPP leader and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani revealed here on Friday that during his government an understanding had been reached with the establishment that then president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf would be given an honourable exit if he resigned, instead of going through impeachment proceedings.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks down 45.81 points KARACHI, July 11 : At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was 29307.31,down 45.81 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, July 11 : The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 99.05 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Play for pride, Neymar tells Brazil AP BRASILIA: Brazilian star Neymar tried to lift the spirits of his team-mates after the traumatic drubbing to Germany, exhorting them to “play for pride” now and thrash the Dutch in Satu­r­day’s playoff for the third place. “We had a great oppo­r­­tunity to write our names in history books, but we failed. “But it’s no use brooding over that miserable day. Let’s now focus on restoring our pride by beating the Dutch,” Neymar said.
Startling facts about suicide bombers’ training den Ismail Khan MIRAMSHAH: It was one of the many non-descript buildings around, located at the dead-end of a small street inside Serai Darpakhel. “Go straight and there is the door on the left”, we were told by a guard outside the street. But even then it was hard to find the iron door, opposite a power transformer and a heavy generator to ensure uninterrupted power supply.
Muttahida’s complaints to be looked into, says general Azfar-ul-Ashfaque KARACHI: In an unusual move, an army general spoke to Muttahida Qaumi Move­ment chief Altaf Hussain over phone on Friday, listened to his grievances about the Karachi operation and promised to him to form a committee to investigate every complaint against the operation. It all started after a statement of the MQM chief was released in the evening and flashed as breaking news by every news channel in which Mr Hussain said he was writing an open letter to Chief of the Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif about “extrajudicial killings of Urdu-speaking innocent workers of the MQM by Rangers, their arrests and torture” during the Karachi operation.
Karachi operation in dire straits Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: The Karachi operation — launched amidst great fanfare in September last year in the hopes of improving the law and order situation in the country’s commercial capital — is currently in dire straits. The federal government now seems to be putting the onus of the operation slacking off squarely on the provincial government’s shoulders.
SC throws out new PCB constitution Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: Undoing the government’s efforts to clean up the mess surrounding the chairmanship of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the Supreme Court suspended on Friday a July 10 notification, which replaced Najam Sethi with a former judge of the apex court. A two-judge bench consisting of Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Saqib Nisar suspended Thursday’s the notification whereby the prime minister – in his capacity as patron-in-chief of the PCB – had appointed former Justice Syed Jamshed Ali Shah as the interim chairman and election commissioner for the board. Justice Shah was to administer the election of a new PCB chairman from amongst members of the PCB’s new board of governors (BoG) within 30 days.
Hamas defiant despite Israeli escalation AFP JERUSALEM: Israeli aerial bombardment of Gaza claimed its 105th Palestinian life on Friday as Hamas pounded central Israel with rockets and the United States offered to help broker a truce. At least 13 Palestinians, including a woman and a seven-year-old child, were killed in Israeli air strikes during the day, medics said. More than 500 people have been injured.
PPP wants democracy to stabilise, says Fahim The Newspaper's Staff Reporter KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians president Makh­doom Amin Fahim said on Friday that the law and order situation was unsatisfactory throughput the country but his party would continue to work for the stabilisation of democracy. Talking to reporters, he wondered what he could suggest to rulers to wriggle out of the current crisis while “the PML-N government is registering cases against us”.
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