DINA for the issue of July 16, 2014
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Zardari backs demand for vote recount on four seatsSyed Irfan RazaISLAMABAD: In a development which may add to the pressure on the PML-N government, former president Asif Ali Zardari supported on Tuesday PTI�s demand for recounting of votes in four constituencies of Punjab and said there was no harm in doing it. �Heavens will not fall if the demand is accepted,� PPP spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar quoted Mr Zardari as saying in a statement. | ||||||||||||||
Imran wants complete audit of general election resultsThe Newspaper's Staff ReporterISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has called for a complete �audit� of results of the general elections held in May last year. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, he said: �Time for recounting of votes of four constituencies is over. Now the PTI demands a complete audit of the poll results as is being done in Afghanistan.� | ||||||||||||||
Key Taliban leader Adnan Rashid reportedly heldSailab MehsudLADHA: Adnan Rashid, a fugitive of the Air Force (PAF), is reported to have been captured, along with three others, from Shakai area of South Waziristan Agency. Military and intelligence sources, however, denied the reports about his capture. Sources in the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan also expressed their ignorance about the detention of Adnan Rashid, a high-profile commander who was on death row on charges of an attempt on the life of former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf. | ||||||||||||||
Troops gain control of Miramshah, enter MiraliIntikhab HanifLAHORE: After gaining full control of Miramshah, army troops entered Mirali, the second largest town of North Waziristan, on Monday night and killed six terrorists, including an important Taliban leader Matiullah. This was announced on Tuesday by ISPR Director General Maj Gen Asim Salim Bajwa in a media briefing in Lahore on the Zarb-i-Azb operation. | ||||||||||||||
Congress plays BJP role on Hafiz Saeed meetThe Newspaper's CorrespondentNEW DELHI: Journalists are required to meet everyone in the course of their work � terrorists, spies, serial killers and worse. Has former Indian journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik met Pakistan�s Jamaat ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed as a journalist, or was he speaking to him recently as an Indian negotiator? Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday asked her envoy in Pakistan to figure that out while denying there was any government approval by New Delhi for the meeting. | ||||||||||||||
Gaza toll hits 194 as truce bid failsAgenciesGAZA CITY: The death toll from Israel�s week-long campaign in Gaza rose to 194 on Tuesday, as two Palestinians were killed in renewed strikes after an Egyptian truce bid failed. The week-old conflict seemed to be at a turning point, with Hamas defying Arab and Western calls to ceasefire and Israel threatening to step up a week-old offensive that could include an invasion of the densely populated enclave of 1.8 million. | ||||||||||||||
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